How to Use student government in a Sentence
student government
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The student government will fund that project for three years.
—Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2020
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Rafael Hicks, 21, the speaker of the Senate for the student government at UC was also at the town hall.
—Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 22 July 2021
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Last week, Glenelg’s student government asked the school to wear pajama pants for the second time in the span of a month.
—Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 25 Jan. 2024
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The conflict came to a head at a student government meeting on May 2.
—Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2019
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One of those members was Turner, the student government’s first Black chief of staff.
—al, 11 Nov. 2022
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This led to an emergency meeting of the student government and widespread calls to defund the group or shut down the event.
—Jason Willick, WSJ, 20 July 2018
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The student government has had to work with local nonprofits to obtain the drug, Shrestha said.
—oregonlive, 8 Mar. 2023
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And on Saturday, at the start of the game, the student government association will lead the Tigers onto the field.
—Brittany Britto, Houston Chronicle, 11 Oct. 2019
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At Franklin, Bathurst has been active in student government, band and dance programs.
—oregonlive, 2 Mar. 2022
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The schools are working with student government to figure out how to best host events like homecoming, which were canceled in the fall.
—Leslie Postal, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Dec. 2020
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The student government will help tell students about the program, Holland said.
—Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 30 Apr. 2022
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He was also elected to serve two years as a senator in the student government.
—Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
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During his junior year, Scott toyed around with the idea of running for president of the student government.
—Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2023
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That team would be my student government team at my college and my advisers as well.
—Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2019
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In a close vote, Brown’s student government rejected DAB’s plea to remove the statues.
—Jack Wolfsohn, National Review, 9 Aug. 2021
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The Memorial-area resident had been in the student government, and passed time during a speech talking with her.
—Emily Foxhall, Houston Chronicle, 20 Apr. 2018
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Gomez said that at the Alligator, her team helps to ensure that the student government puts its $20 million budget to good use.
—Alexandra Villarreal, Fox News, 25 Apr. 2018
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Yale’s student government took a stance against the practice in November.
—Collin Binkley, ajc, 13 Feb. 2022
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By her senior year, Hansel had a 4.0 grade-point average and near-perfect test scores and was in student government and drum major for the Mayo Marching Band.
—Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com, 20 June 2018
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Until now, though, most events have looked more like the one held last week by the University of Alaska Fairbanks student government.
—Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2022
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Members of the school’s student government are also working to spotlight Ball.
—Kathleen M. Wong, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2022
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Smith, a senior, has played football, run track, held student government roles and served as president of the Black Student Union at Gallaudet.
—Donna M. Owens, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2022
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The suit asks that a judge declare the new student government invalid, return student fees and award damages to certain plaintiffs.
—Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2018
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The council, a kind of summertime student government, convened a few times every year.
—Mac Schwerin, Vox, 16 Aug. 2019
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Around seventh grade, his focus turned to student government.
—Kimberly Dishongh, Arkansas Online, 5 Feb. 2023
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Many of the tests have been for informal ballots, like student government groups and community projects.
—Nir Kshetri, The Conversation, 18 Oct. 2019
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In April, the student government engaged in a heated debate over how to define antisemitism.
—Ben Sales, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Nov. 2021
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Andrea Randle, who went to school with Hawley from second to eighth grades and served with him in student government, initially was impressed.
—Michael Kranish, Washington Post, 11 May 2021
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Lopez, who also is MCC student government president, said she increasingly is pulled away from worrying about her own finances when her fellow students seek support with their own crises.
—Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2024
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Sissoko has always created change in a largely orderly fashion — running for student government, getting good grades — but watching the protests unfold called into question some of that commitment to rule following.
—Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 28 May 2024
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