How to Use binational in a Sentence

binational

adjective
  • The 2020 school year would have been the eighth year of the binational teacher program.
    Nik Streng, oregonlive, 22 June 2020
  • The two sides agreed to form a binational commission to track progress on the issue.
    Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2019
  • This year’s Comic-Con library card will be an homage to the binational region.
    Alexandra Mendozawriter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2022
  • What Comer – and others – should know is that El Paso and Juarez make up one of the largest binational communities in the world.
    Peter Svarzbein, CNN, 13 Feb. 2023
  • What’s more, their work, in varying ways, deals in themes of that binational identity.
    Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Critics say the movement aims to erase Israel and replace it with a single binational state.
    Ilan Ben Zion, chicagotribune.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • For the average high schooler, an eight-hour school day is enough to elicit complaints—but for binational students, the school day is the least of their concerns.
    Aina Marzia, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Simply removing the fence may be enough to improve some binational species’ prospects, Flesch says.
    April Reese, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2021
  • The impact of losing the binational teachers this year is hard to put into words, Ortiz-Chavolla said.
    Nik Streng, oregonlive, 22 June 2020
  • That killing was a binational tragedy, with victims from El Paso and its Mexican sister city of Juárez.
    Amina Khan Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2020
  • The measures come amid concerns of a massive increase of migrants that could strain local resources here and in binational cities along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border.
    Alfredo Corchado, Dallas News, 11 May 2023
  • Nor has the title ever been granted to a binational region.
    Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2021
  • Remesas have long served as a sort of binational health insurance.
    Dianne Solis, Dallas News, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Unlike human visitors, the binational elk don't need a passport to cross the border.
    Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018
  • In the southern part of the state, many families have for generations routinely gone back and forth over the border, living a kind of binational life.
    Jennifer Medina, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2020
  • About a year ago, the world's first binational airport terminal opened in San Diego as an extension of the Tijuana Airport.
    Rosalina Nieves, CNN, 31 May 2017
  • That would mean a choice between a country that is secular and democratic but binational, or a Jewish apartheid regime.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Their goal was not a Palestinian state (which the partition plan sought to establish), and certainly not a binational one.
    Joshua Leifer, The New York Review of Books, 11 May 2023
  • In August, the binational park will celebrate 50 years since it was founded by then-first lady Pat Nixon as a symbol of friendship between the two countries.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2021
  • The project is part of a binational effort to stem cross-border pollution that has since last year shuttered shorelines as far north as Coronado at a record pace.
    Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2023
  • Aborto Seguro Chihuahua, which is part of the binational network, provides long-distance guidance to women in the U.S.
    MarÍa Teresa HernÁndez, ajc, 2 Apr. 2023
  • But the answer is not to abandon the two-state solution in favor of pursuing equal rights for Palestinians in a binational Israeli state.
    Michael Oren, Foreign Affairs, 31 May 2023
  • The city has had a binational feel because of its proximity and ties to its sister city in Mexico, Ciudad Juárez, and has been in the national spotlight for months.
    New York Times, 3 Aug. 2019
  • The binational aid group has delayed opening a 130-bed shelter at their new migrant aid center, despite already having the beds and other resources in place to do so, because of the virus.
    Rafael Carranza, azcentral, 18 Apr. 2020
  • Plus, the binational San Diego/Tijuana region is a goldmine begging to be explored; that sets our region apart from any other.
    Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2021
  • Over the next several years, the couple kept up a binational relationship during which time their two daughters, Archana and Angana, were born.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020
  • The pride of being both Mexican and American in a binational border.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2020
  • The binational culture of the region — Texas license plates are visible on cars, as are plates from the Mexican state of Tamaulipas — has frayed in recent years, but remains intact.
    Manny Fernandez, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The challenge to address these worsening flood events is felt on both sides of the border, a binational community known as Ambos Nogales.
    Clara Migoya, The Arizona Republic, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The river as main water source supports more than 2 million residents in the binational region.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2021

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