How to Use foreign aid in a Sentence

foreign aid

noun
  • Rafah had, until then, served as the only entry and exit point for foreign aid workers into and out of Gaza.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 16 May 2024
  • 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
  • The report comes just a week after the U.K. cut its foreign aid budget, a move that provoked a huge domestic backlash.
    Eileen Gbagbo, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • Afghanistan remains heavily dependent on foreign aid to provide citizens with basic services and keep the country’s security forces running.
    Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2020
  • Complaints about the spending bills piled up on Tuesday, including on Fox, with criticism of the $$ included for foreign aid, special interests, etc.
    Brian Stelter, CNN, 22 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • There's a great malaise right now within countries about foreign aid and giving.
    Ayesha Ali, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Papua New Guinea is the largest recipient of Australian foreign aid.
    Rod McGuirk, Star Tribune, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Even with all these measures, the loss of the foreign aid from the United States and the European Union would have devastating effects.
    Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Last week the Senate passed a $95 billion foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
    Courtney Kube, NBC News, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Versions of the global rule blocking certain foreign aid, called the Mexico City policy, have been enacted by every Republican president, and rescinded by every Democratic one, since the 1980s.
    Maggie Astor, New York Times, 25 June 2024

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