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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In Afghanistan, none of the mountains of evidence pointing to the failures of foreign aid and nation-building were ever allowed to see the light of day.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 4 Sep. 2021
• The foreign aid bills are similar to a $95 billion package that passed in the Senate in February.
  — Deirdre Walsh, NPR, 19 Apr. 2024
• In the middle of the 20th century, foreign aid helped India get through poor monsoons without famine.
  — Jeremy White, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
• But foreign aid represented over 40% of GDP for Afghanistan.
  — David Miliband, CNN, 20 Jan. 2022
• Before the Taliban took over, about 80 percent of the government's budget came from foreign aid.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 13 May 2022
• The Taliban are reimposing strict Sharia law on the country, which has lost billions of dollars in foreign aid, and the nation is now gripped by a spreading famine.
  — Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2021
• Almost a third of the health budget comes from foreign aid, and the top donor plans to halt funding for a program that doctors say is critical to saving lives.
  — Washington Post, 6 May 2022
• The economic downturn has driven millions more Afghans into poverty and even hunger, as the flow of foreign aid slowed to a trickle.
  — Rahim Faiez and Ebrahim Noroozi, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Aug. 2022
• Drought conditions, the pandemic and the shut off of foreign aid after the Taliban took control have thrown the country into dire straits.
  — Ryan Bergeron, CNN, 17 May 2022
• The providers of foreign aid are right to care about corruption and accountability.
  — Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2023
• If approved, that bill would have also provided foreign aid to Israel and Ukraine.
  — Brian Bushard, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• There are troubling signs that the UK, reflecting cuts to its foreign aid budget, may reduce its funding.
  — Gayle E. Smith, Forbes, 25 July 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024