How to Use the United Nations in a Sentence

the United Nations

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• The main reason to visit the show in person is to see it in the context of the United Nations.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023
• Vegas is going to be flagged more than the United Nations.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
• Flour, too, is running out and most wheat mills have been bombed, according to the United Nations.
  — Ameera Harouda Yousef Masoud, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2023
• They will then be transported on the ground to Gaza and distributed to civilians by the United Nations.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 28 Nov. 2023
• Ukraine has requested that the Red Cross and the United Nations be granted access.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
• More than 8,000 civilians have been killed, according to the United Nations.
  — Janice Kai Chen and Mary Ilyushina, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2023
• The protocol was successful; the United Nations says the ozone layer is on track for a full recovery.
  — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2024
• There has been an increase in dust and sand storms because of land degradation and droughts caused by climate change, according to the United Nations.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 9 Mar. 2023
• In the years since, Sophia has graced glossy magazine covers, spoken at tech conferences and traveled the world on behalf of the United Nations.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2023
• In a statement to Reuters, the Iranian mission to the United Nations denied the accusation.
  — NBC News, 25 July 2024
• According to a group of independent experts at the United Nations, famine has spread throughout all of Gaza.
  — Diaa Ostaz, ABC News, 29 July 2024
• That would be the perfect riposte to Russian demands that the United Nations impose sanctions on Israel.
  — Max Boot, Washington Post, 20 June 2024
• More than three hundred thousand Chinese moved away last year, more than double the pace of migration a decade ago, according to the United Nations.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• Hundreds were killed and thousands arrested as the authorities sought to crush the protests, according to the United Nations.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 6 July 2024
• Despite the setback at the United Nations, Kostin has said his office will carry on with the investigation.
  — Fox News, 7 May 2024
• Eman Khiri said her sister-in-law, who works for the United Nations, and that woman’s 5-year-old daughter, an American citizen, have been struggling to leave the country.
  — Katharine Houreld and Claire Parker, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Apr. 2023
• The trucks’ inventories were instead submitted to the Egyptians, the United Nations and Israel, the officials said.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2023
• According to the United Nations, 2 million Gazans are living in near-famine conditions.
  — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2024
• Two-thirds of the world's population is projected to face water scarcity by 2025, according to the United Nations.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• And the problem is getting worse—the United Nations anticipates that airplane emissions of carbon dioxide will triple by 2050.
  — Byallie Garfinkle, Fortune, 3 July 2024
• Now, the United Nations has taken a first step toward filling in these data gaps with the latest installment of its periodic report on e-waste around the world.
  — Maddie Stone / Grist, Quartz, 23 Apr. 2024
• Burning fossil fuels — such as coal, oil and gas — is the biggest contributor of carbon emissions across the globe, according to the United Nations.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Oct. 2024
• According to the United Nations, the fashion industry is one of the world’s greatest polluters, responsible for about 20% of the planet’s waste water and about 10% of the world’s greenhouse gas emission.
  — Bianca Padró Ocasio, refinery29.com, 20 Apr. 2023
• In 1951, the United Nations headquarters in New York officially opened.
  — Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 12 June 2024
• India has also abstained from all resolutions on Ukraine at the United Nations.
  — Aishwarya S Iyer, CNN, 19 Aug. 2024
• The generational message was noteworthy because Biden is 81 and Trump is 78, both born before the United Nations was founded.
  — Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 17 July 2024
• Iran's mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
  — TIME, 9 Feb. 2024
• Up to seven million Venezuelans have simply given up and abandoned their homeland since 2015, according to the United Nations.
  — Frances Robles Adriana Loureiro Fernandez, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• Despite that heated rhetoric, the former Ambassador to the United Nations endorsed her former boss earlier this month.
  — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 26 July 2024
• The strike came one day after Israel banned the United Nations’ agency for Palestinian refugees from operating in the country in a move that sparked an international outcry.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024