How to Use foreign affairs in a Sentence
foreign affairs
plural noun-
The virus's wounds may long be felt in foreign affairs too.
— Stephen Collinson, CNN, 25 May 2021 -
Think of it as the rules of the game of foreign affairs in East Asia, dictated by China.
— Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2020 -
Ignatius is a foreign affairs columnist for The Washington Post and the author of a ton of spy thrillers over the years.
— Andy Meek, BGR, 15 Dec. 2021 -
Impressed by his knowledge of foreign affairs and language skills, The Times hired him as a copy boy.
— Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 9 July 2023 -
What the Fox News host's flip-flop on the invasion of Ukraine says about his influence and read on foreign affairs.
— Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2022 -
Both the ministry and Ukraine’s first deputy minister of foreign affairs shared images of the mosque to Twitter.
— Joel Shannon, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2022 -
Slutsky is the head of the state Duma's foreign affairs committee.
— Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 25 Jan. 2024 -
So Menendez is cooked, and President Biden has a wider lane in foreign affairs now.
— Fox News Staff, Fox News, 23 Sep. 2023 -
And very few pages in those papers were devoted to foreign affairs.
— Dexter Fergie, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2022 -
Hasan Akhund, the former acting minister of foreign affairs, went so far as to urge Afghans who worked with the U.S. and had fled to return to the country.
— Fox News, 1 Dec. 2021 -
Borrell, who serves as the high representative of the E.U. for foreign affairs, said some of the blame for what happened should fall on Trump.
— Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2021 -
And that, in turn, would require informing the public about foreign affairs.
— Andrew Lanham, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2023 -
The statements on foreign affairs used to give a sense of what the leadership deemed to be the most important developments around the world.
— Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2021 -
The comments highlight the intraparty divide over how involved the U.S. should be in foreign affairs.
— Brittany Bernstein, National Review, 11 Oct. 2023 -
David Ignatius writes a twice-a-week foreign affairs column for The Washington Post.
— David Ignatius, Washington Post, 21 July 2024 -
The French foreign affairs ministry and Macron’s office did not respond to requests for comment.
— Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023 -
But his rhetoric and self-regard have long exceeded France’s power and Mr. Macron’s skills and instincts in foreign affairs.
— The Editorial Board, WSJ, 20 June 2022 -
Adam Taylor writes about foreign affairs for The Washington Post.
— Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024 -
The current deputy minister of foreign affairs, Liban Yousuf Osman, was among them.
— Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 May 2020 -
The potential change at the helm of Ukraine’s foreign affairs comes a mere two months ahead of the election of new leadership in key ally Washington.
— Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2024 -
Adam Taylor writes about foreign affairs for The Washington Post.
— Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024 -
But a majority floor vote was required to boot Omar from foreign affairs.
— Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023 -
In the early eighties, at Harvard, Blinken wrote dozens of columns in the Crimson about politics and foreign affairs.
— Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020 -
Fred Mitchell, the island nation’s minister of foreign affairs, said an attempt to block removal from the Bahamas could drag on for months or even years.
— Jim Wyss, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2022 -
During her 12 years in Congress, Watson served on the foreign affairs committee and traveled to Africa many times.
— Lottie Joiner, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2020 -
What's clear is that foreign affairs and geopolitics have returned as issues that could shape the opinions of U.S. voters.
— Josh Boak, ajc, 18 May 2022 -
Newsweek has contacted the foreign affairs ministries of Iran and Russia for comment.
— Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 25 Dec. 2024 -
And his foreign affairs adviser Celso Amorim was in Caracas for the vote.
— Juan Pablo Spinetto, The Mercury News, 31 July 2024 -
Tariq Aziz was his deputy prime minister, at one point, and his minister of foreign affairs.
— Peter Bergen, CNN, 14 Mar. 2023 -
Newsweek has reached out to Mexico's foreign affairs ministry and Trump's transition team via email for comment on Sunday morning.
— David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
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