How to Use foreign aid in a Sentence

foreign aid

noun

• And so the scale of its foreign aid program is quite modest.
  — CBS News, 2 Nov. 2022
• Quick spending of foreign aid can lead to 'fraud, waste and abuse' Keep an eye on the money.
  — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2023
• In 2007, for instance, foreign aid paid for more than three-quarters of the cost of Liberia’s health care.
  — Jessica Eise, Quartz Africa, 21 June 2019
• And foreign aid amounts to a whopping 1 percent of the budget.
  — Norman J. Ornstein, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2023
• The law passed Congress in April as part of a larger foreign aid package.
  — Julia Shapero, The Hill, 20 Dec. 2024
• Please refer to the work of the late economist Peter Bauer for the nature of foreign aid.
  — WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
• The heart of the US debate over Central America is the level of foreign aid to the region.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2018
• Arms dealers rushed to the country, backed by billions in foreign aid.
  — Justin Scheck, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
• In the world of foreign aid, $13.6 billion is real money.
  — Arkansas Online, 12 Mar. 2022
• Afghanistan was a poor country before the Taliban took over, propped up by foreign aid.
  — NBC News, 17 Nov. 2021
• In some places, the refugees boost local businesses and act as a magnet for foreign aid.
  — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
• Hodeidah is home to Yemen’s main port, through which the vast majority of Yemen’s foreign aid and food flows.
  — Dion Nissenbaum, WSJ, 14 June 2018
• And foreign aid, like all of politics since the beginning, is all about quid pro quo.
  — John Kass, Twin Cities, 11 Dec. 2019
• All the foreign aid programs in the world combined cannot improve the lives of the world’s poorest citizens more than freer trade.
  — WSJ, 17 Oct. 2018
• But so does the fact that the Taliban — or whoever is in power — needs foreign aid to govern.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2021
• Biden responded by pointing to the billions of dollars that the United States spends in foreign aid around the world.
  — Arkansas Online, 11 Jan. 2023
• The point of Trump’s tour was to highlight all the ways US foreign aid is helping children in the developing world.
  — Alexia Fernández Campbell, Vox, 9 Oct. 2018
• The foreign aid bill still needs to be approved by the full House, but a vote is expected Saturday.
  — Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 18 Apr. 2024
• Some 60% of Britons thinks the government spends too much on foreign aid, according to the pollster YouGov.
  — Alex Morales, Bloomberg.com, 25 Nov. 2020
• There's a great malaise right now within countries about foreign aid and giving.
  — Ayesha Ali, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2023
• Trump did not mention a provision of foreign aid to Ukraine on the call, one of the people said, according to the Journal.
  — Reuters, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2019
• The health system, heavily reliant on foreign aid, neared collapse in the wake of the Taliban takeover.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2022
• Then, the foreign aid groups who promised all sorts of help moved on as Ebola spread into more populous towns.
  — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 27 Feb. 2023
• Democrats then blocked a GOP effort to cut foreign aid in the package — another one of Trump’s demands.
  — al, 28 Dec. 2020
• The risk of the diversion of foreign aid in wartorn countries has long bedeviled the U.S. and other countries.
  — T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 20 Mar. 2024
• Some Americans think of foreign aid as nothing more than money down the drain.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2021
• At the massive scale of US foreign aid, even small spending changes can help or hurt hundreds of thousands of people.
  — Caitlin Hu, Kareem Khadder and Sugam Pokharel, CNN, 3 Nov. 2020
• And there's a lot of wariness to continue sending foreign aid.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2023
• In the Senate, a group of Republicans opposed to the foreign aid kept the chamber open all night to rail against it before the final vote.
  — Mary Clare Jalonick The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 24 Feb. 2024
• Meanwhile, Ukraine, has its own set of boats, which have been augmented through foreign aid packages.
  — Vikram Mittal, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Jan 2025