How to Use foreign policy in a Sentence
foreign policy
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The true roots of Trump’s foreign policy can be found in the 1950s.
—Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
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When Biden came to the White House in 2021, his foreign policy goals were more modest.
—Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2023
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The two have tangled over their names, foreign policy and more, with no end in sight.
—Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 29 Aug. 2023
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The war in Ukraine has smashed the remnants of pragmatism in the Kremlin’s foreign policy.
—Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 24 Sep. 2024
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The White House said the trip comes at a pivotal moment in Biden's foreign policy agenda.
—Byalexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 21 May 2022
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The disarray is a metaphor for Biden foreign policy in the region.
—Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 5 June 2022
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This is the lowest point in US foreign policy in my lifetime.
—Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 8 Dec. 2022
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If the White House changes hands in 2025, brace for a reset that shifts the focus of our foreign policy from the Atlantic to the Americas.
—Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
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And two of them lost arguably due to foreign policy issues.
—NBC News, 26 Feb. 2023
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A lot of his answers went pretty deep into the weeds of foreign policy.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2024
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The two countries have gone head-to-head in trade, foreign policy, and the race for technology in recent years.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2023
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As Hanke points out, sanctions now stand as a prime weapon of U.S. foreign policy.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2023
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More broadly, Turkey needs to show the West that its foreign policy is not all about protesting, Mr. Han said.
—Safak Timur, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
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Some charter members of the school of neoconservative foreign policy made the risky choice to ride the tiger.
—Samuel Moyn, The New Republic, 14 Feb. 2023
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Turkey, in its foreign policy, has tried to use rescue and relief work as part of its larger mission to the world.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2023
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From a foreign policy perspective, some of this is old hat.
—Blaise Malley, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2022
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On foreign policy, the group’s more or less united in backing Biden’s strong support for Ukraine and Israel.
—Beth Greenfield, Fortune, 1 July 2024
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Posters used it to critique US foreign policy and have claimed that the letter changed their perspective.
—WIRED, 17 Nov. 2023
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New technologies caused foreign policy thinkers to look in new places.
—Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2024
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Harris and Trump both stuck to their foreign policy talking points and didn't present any new ideas, plans or campaign promises.
—Barak Ravid, Axios, 10 Sep. 2024
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Each placed the maintenance of British influence at the center of their foreign policy, just as Churchill, Attlee, and Eden had.
—Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2022
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Building and then bolstering the global coalition allied with Ukraine has been a top White House foreign policy goal for the past year.
—Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2023
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Who advised him to attack Trump and weigh in on foreign policy before entering the race?
—Audrey Fahlberg, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
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A lot of labels have been applied to Trump's foreign policy approach.
—NPR, 7 Feb. 2025
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Berlin is more likely than before to sign on, too, now that Russia’s war in Ukraine has shown Germans that their foreign policy of change through trade has failed.
—Arshan Barzani, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2022
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Basel’s community might not exist in a few years if there is no change in U.S. foreign policy.
—Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2025
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The anecdote underscores the prominent role that large tech firms can play in US foreign policy.
—Sean Lyngaas, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
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Harris is likely to model most of her foreign policy on Biden’s.
—Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2024
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In his speech, Trump claimed Democrats were doing a poor job of running the country and highlighted a range of issues, from the economy to foreign policy.
—Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 9 Oct. 2022
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The latest poll also shows that more people now believe that American foreign policy is headed in the wrong direction, with 49 percent agreeing in March, compared to 40 percent in January.
—William Lambers, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
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