How to Use local government in a Sentence

local government

noun

• The changes have taken a toll on the morale of state and local government workers.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 25 July 2022
• María Ramos Pacheco is a reporter on the local government team.
  — María Ramos Pacheco, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
• The church is the property of the archdiocese, said David O’Brien, a spokesman for the local government.
  — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
• The local government does have concrete plans, though, to draw tourists.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2022
• The zoo is run by the local government, which was said to be running out of money and therefore unable to feed its charges.
  — Laura He, CNN, 20 Sep. 2023
• Late last month, scores of workers were filmed fleeing the plant as fear about the virus grew among them, and the local government sent teams to the site to manage the crisis.
  — Yang Jie, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
• Still, courts and local governments are starting to fight back.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Nov. 2023
• The local government agreed in June to settle the lawsuit for $12.5 million.
  — Margaret Stafford and John Hanna, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2022
• The clock face was stored in the city hall's basement when the local government relocated to Bagby Street.
  — Robin Soslow, Chron, 11 Feb. 2023
• State offices and courts will be closed; many state and local government employees will have the day off.
  — Ruth Serven Smith | [e-mail], al, 7 Oct. 2022
• The last time it was shot down, lawmakers said that the local governments were not contributing enough funding to the project.
  — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 25 Oct. 2024
• But the byzantine structure of local government in Illinois has largely stayed the same since then.
  — Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2024
• Not since the Great Recession have state and local government workers seen their wages grow this fast.
  — Kyle Stokes, Axios, 30 July 2024
• While the local government is striving to house people, the problem is more than the system can handle.
  — Nicholas Slayton, The New Republic, 12 Sep. 2022
• Rotterdam’s local government asked him to document the loan and agree that it be paid back.
  — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2023
• The same goes for local governments in San Diego that often focus on housing costs.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2023
• The group plans to go back to court to force the local government to return the land to its original state or some approximation.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2022
• The local government had by then set up its own facility to house children trafficked to the mines.
  — Kevin Monahan, NBC news, 26 Sep. 2022
• The lockdown will last until Nov. 9, the local government said in a statement posted to its WeChat account.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2022
• Beijing has begun to step away from the effort, leaving local governments to pick up the subsidy slack.
  — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
• The local government has not yet announced a plan to replace the network of care that AMC in downtown provided.
  — Donovan J. Thomas, ajc, 21 Oct. 2022
• The local government or agency that's part of the rebuilding process needs to pay for the project — and then apply for reimbursement.
  — Cristina Corujo, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2022
• The money is expected to flow to nearly every state and local government in the country.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2023
• That’s why local governments hate Grants Pass — most don’t have enough beds, and therefore have to worry about whether they will be sued for making rules, or worse, have courts make them.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2024
• The local government didn’t help, said Wang, who offers Chinese medicines such as isatis root and forsythia to ease symptoms like sore throat and fever.
  — Bloomberg, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2023
• Plus, the state and some local governments have encouraged ADU construction as part of the effort to expand the supply of housing.
  — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2024
• The fighting in the Blue Nile grew out of the killing of a farmer earlier last week and continued through Saturday, according to the local government.
  — Samy Magdy, ajc, 17 July 2022
• State and local governments in New York and Illinois kicked into high gear toward the end of last year to get paperwork moving.
  — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
• The third bill would redistribute tax revenues by giving a larger share to local governments.
  — Taijing Wu and Ken Moritsugu, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
• Providers in several rural counties noted that there aren’t any shelters that are owned or operated by local governments.
  — Hallie Claflin, Journal Sentinel, 25 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Jan 2025