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
• And foreign aid amounts to a whopping 1 percent of the budget.
  — Norman J. Ornstein, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2023
• Please refer to the work of the late economist Peter Bauer for the nature of foreign aid.
  — WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
• 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
• And foreign aid, like all of politics since the beginning, is all about quid pro quo.
  — John Kass, Twin Cities, 11 Dec. 2019
• 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 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
• This kind of reasoning tips the scales, because foreign aid accounts for two-thirds of the money spent on malaria.
  — The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
• The call came against the backdrop of a $250 million foreign aid package for Ukraine that was being readied by Congress but stalled by Trump.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2019
• This is the second weapons package announced from the foreign aid supplemental that passed in the House and Senate last month.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 10 May 2024
• Carroll blamed the lack of support for the virus-hunting work in the past in part on the Trump administration’s wider disdain for foreign aid.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2020
• Vought shares the president's disdain of foreign aid and has sought to cut it in previous budgets.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Nov. 2019
• That is only one notch above Haiti, another failed state that has been lavished with foreign aid.
  — Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 1 Sep. 2021
• Both groups have disrupted the economy that was once defined by foreign aid.
  — Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
• Congress should withhold foreign aid to any country that is not willing to work with the United States to control the flow of unfettered immigration.
  — Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024