How to Use foreign office in a Sentence

foreign office

noun

• The foreign office and May’s office declined to comment.
  — Tim Ross, Bloomberg.com, 7 Oct. 2017
• But the more immediate concerns are jobs and cost of living, said Joshua Mitchell, of the country’s foreign office.
  — New York Times, 3 June 2021
• But López Obrador’s incoming team at the foreign office overruled them.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2019
• Of those, about 12 are based in foreign offices overseas, including in China.
  — Katie Thomas, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• Mr Smith presides over an operation as big as the foreign office of a medium-sized country.
  — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
• She was hired by CNN after graduation, and worked as a desk assistant in the foreign office in Atlanta.
  — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 5 Dec. 2017
• Pakistan's foreign office did not respond to a request for comment.
  — Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2020
• While the German foreign office confirmed on Thursday that a German embassy staff member had died as a result of the explosion.
  — NBC News, 6 Aug. 2020
• Kabul chief of police Dawood Amin says the area of Kabul that was targeted includes foreign offices.
  — Rahim Faiez, chicagotribune.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• Kabul chief of police Dawood Amin said the area of Kabul that was targeted, which includes many foreign offices, was quickly sealed off.
  — Rahim Faiez and Amir Shah, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2018
• Until December, Saathoff had been the foreign office’s point person on Russia.
  — Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2022
• Pakistan’s foreign office summoned the Indian envoy in Islamabad on Friday to lodge a protest.
  — Vibhuti Agarwal, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
• This is the first time that the most senior Pakistani foreign office representative has visited India since 2016.
  — Sophia Saifi, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
• People who have worked with him both in the foreign office and in London’s city hall say that behind the ebullient facade is an introvert who rises early to write his own speeches and reads voraciously.
  — Max Colchester, WSJ, 28 June 2019
• At one Netflix foreign office, an executive telling Bajaria about a flop had seemed mortified.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
• And last night, even the bellowing, Brexiteering Boris sided with the current American president over the British foreign office.
  — Sahil Handa, National Review, 11 July 2019
• In 2018, Xinhua established its foreign office in Nairobi.
  — Jianli Yang, National Review, 19 June 2021
• Darroch joined Britain’s foreign office in 1976 and held positions in Tokyo, Rome and Brussels, then served as national security adviser.
  — Washington Post, 10 July 2019
• It has been noted that nothing actually said in the documentary by the UK foreign office was particularly new, yet this is still an example of how government officials around the world don't like to see old dirty laundry aired out in public.
  — Peter Suciu, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• Britain said its final evacuation flight would depart from the Wadi Seidna airfield late Saturday, with more than 1,800 people airlifted out of Sudan, according to a statement from its foreign office.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 30 Apr. 2023
• Microsoft settles bribery case Microsoft is paying more than $25 million to settle federal corruption charges involving a bribery scheme in its Hungary office and three other foreign offices.
  — SFChronicle.com, 22 July 2019
• Members of Australia’s most prominent parties began contacting foreign offices and consulates.
  — Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2017
• Other recommendations included more regular audits of foreign offices and vetted police units, and stricter controls on expenses.
  — Jim Mustian, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024