departments

Example Sentences

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Last week, Canada’s Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne ordered government departments to remove policies that impede competition.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

In many departments, a steady stream of “countable” papers is valued more than the slower path to a smaller number of genuinely important studies.

From Slate • May 3, 2026

For decades, California had some of the strongest legal protections for law enforcement officers in the country, at times allowing those who engaged in serious misconduct to quietly quit and find jobs in other departments.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2026

The NHS is expanding the initiative to adult and child wards, with others settings including maternity, neonatal and emergency departments to follow.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

It was hoped the project would be a model for similar projects in Haiti’s eight other departments and in other chronically poor countries.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French