How to Use municipality in a Sentence

municipality

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  • The boy and his family, who were present at the time of the shooting, are Mexican and from the municipality.
    — Julia Reinstein, ABC News, 29 July 2024
  • Bonaire, an island municipality of the Netherlands, is off the coast of Venezuela.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 29 May 2024
  • This will be the first time in the history of the U.S. a municipality's offices will be closed in observance of Eid, Walid said.
    — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Salt Lake City, the only other Utah municipality in the study came in 43rd place.
    — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Drone footage recorded by Cheng Hwa, one of Pino’s students, the day of the June 2022 fires captures the municipality fighting what was in essence an oil fire.
    — Julia Shipley, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The Court of Appeal remanded the case back to the county court and the city, stating that the municipality should conduct a new city review process.
    — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Then, at 10 a.m. police were called to a car fire about 40 miles north, in the rural municipality of Cartier.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Instead, the district would work with the municipality on what to do with the property.
    — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Nov. 2022
  • That came after the time when both were the same municipality, Cumminsville.
    — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 26 Dec. 2022
  • In Lee County and the other four municipalities, their rating dropped to a 10 — a 0% discount.
    — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The Kyiv municipality aims to set up 1,000 shelters that will be able to offer not only protection against bombs, but a place to warm up.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2022
  • This marks the second mass shooting in the state in a month, after attackers killed 10 people in a pool hall in the state's Tarimoro municipality.
    — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Many states and municipalities have laws already on the books that build in more protections for workers.
    — Chabeli Carrazana, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
  • Dozens were killed as reports emerged that the municipality had a stake in the building and approved a shoddy construction plan.
    — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2022
  • He was struck by how the municipality did not have a comprehensive database of what needed to be fixed.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2022
  • This isn't the first year there has been more demand than supply for lifeguards, but across the country, states and municipalities are facing their worst shortages on record.
    — Elise Preston, CBS News, 3 June 2023
  • Boston is the only municipality in the state that does not elect its School Committee.
    — Julian E.j. Sorapuru, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The South County municipality switched from city-wide elections to a by-district system in April.
    — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Late last year, the local municipality tagged Navi Mumbai as Flamingo City, putting up statues of the bird on streets and painting murals on walls.
    — Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Dec. 2022
  • No other municipality in the country has the issue on its ballot this year.
    — Connor Sheetsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Recently, the Netherlands has launched a pilot program for cannabis sales in the municipalities of Tilburg and Breda.
    — Dario Sabaghi, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Germany’s Wacken Open Air, one of the biggest heavy-metal festivals in the world, takes its name from a rural municipality in the far northwest of the country.
    — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 13 Sep. 2023
  • In many places along the coast, municipalities raced to collect and dispose of debris before Milton’s winds and storm surge could toss it around and compound any damage.
    — Julio Cortez, Kate Payne, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024
  • In spring, cut up the tree and dispose of it through your municipality’s landscape waste disposal program.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Thor Equities purchased the land in 2016 and worked with the local municipality for over seven years to receive final approvals to go forward with the project.
    — Erica Wertheim Zohar, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Cannabis businesses must be approved by the municipality where the business is located and receive a license from the state.
    — Adrienne Roberts, Detroit Free Press, 23 July 2023
  • The elections commission has said an address is the street number, street name and municipality.
    — Scott Bauer, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Jerusalem municipality authorities did not respond to a CNN request for comment on the lack of public services in the refugee camp.
    — Abeer Salman, CNN, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The county's primary revenue source is its property tax levy, but since 2011 the state has placed limits on how much municipalities can increase revenue from the levy.
    — Jim Riccioli, Journal Sentinel, 23 Oct. 2024
  • That includes at the polls and at central count locations, where some municipalities count their absentee ballots.
    — Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 17 Oct. 2024

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