How to Use trusteeship in a Sentence

trusteeship

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  • The artifacts were then passed into the trusteeship of the British Museum.
    — New York Times, 8 July 2022
  • His lawsuit said the Teamsters needed to end its trusteeship and hold elections for new officers.
    — Mike Schneider, Star Tribune, 19 Apr. 2021
  • One is to recover the notion of leadership as trusteeship.
    — Michael J. Sandel, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Gary Brown said in a lawsuit filed in federal court in Orlando last week that the Teamsters needs to end its trusteeship and hold elections for new officers.
    — Mike Schneider, Star Tribune, 9 Feb. 2021
  • During these decades, broadcasters were held to a standard of public trusteeship, in which the right to use the airwaves came with a mandate to provide for democratic discourse.
    — New York Times, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Captain Burnett, who died in 1922, willed the bulk of his estate to his granddaughter in a trusteeship for his yet-unborn great-grandchild, who would become Anne Marion.
    — New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Complicating negotiations is the involvement of the U.S. government, which has formed a trusteeship with the company to oversee the sale, the sources said.
    — Reuters, The Mercury News, 28 July 2019
  • The degrees of separation between Kanders’s trusteeship at the Whitney and what’s happening at the border are numerous and intricate enough to make my head hurt.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 25 June 2019
  • But public trusteeship for broadcast and diverse ownership began to unravel with the libertarian shift of the Reagan era.
    — New York Times, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Sometimes, the trusteeship under such trusts established by U.S. taxpayers will consist of a foreign trust company and a domestic trust company that act as co-trustees, to avoid having to file as a foreign trust.
    — Alan Gassman, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
  • As a mentor, I’ve been given a trusteeship of my students’ moral character, along with their intellectual ability.
    — Caroline Kitchener, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2017
  • As international frustrations and worries grow, some momentum is growing for a proposal for outside powers to take over South Sudan and run it as a trusteeship until things calm down.
    — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2017
  • The German government has taken control of Rosneft’s local subsidiaries, placing them under trusteeship as Germany prepares for a looming ban on Russian oil imports.
    — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2022
  • After failing to persuade executives of energy companies to take over the business, Mr. Scholz and his aides activated plan B, putting the company under the trusteeship of Germany’s energy watchdog.
    — Bojan Pancevski, WSJ, 16 June 2022
  • The government has now placed two Rosneft subsidiaries under the trusteeship of Germany’s energy regulator, meaning that three critical refineries are now controlled by Germany.
    — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Rosneft accounts for about 12% of Germany’s oil refining capacity, importing oil worth several hundred million euros every month, according to the government, which said the trusteeship was initially due to last for six months.
    — Time, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Today depictions of African weakness, Western trusteeship and Chinese ruthlessness are continuations of these stereotypes.
    — Yan Hairong, Quartz Africa, 4 June 2020
  • Gandhi argued that companies should act as trusteeships, valuing social responsibility alongside profits, a view recently echoed by the Business Roundtable.
    — Sudev Sheth, Quartz India, 1 Oct. 2019
  • In some colleges where trusteeship is taken seriously, new trustees are actually assigned mentors, and an internal governance committee might do a biannual assessment of a new trustee’s performance.
    — Allen C. Guelzo, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2018
  • Transition officials say Kushner is resigning from all of his other partnerships, trusteeships and divesting from 35 investments.
    — Simon Dumenco, ELLE Decor, 10 Jan. 2017
  • Meanwhile, viable alternatives to the two-state solution could be considered, including plans for federations, condominiums, and trusteeships.
    — Michael Oren, Foreign Affairs, 31 May 2023

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