How to Use foreign affairs in a Sentence

foreign affairs

plural noun
  • The virus's wounds may long be felt in foreign affairs too.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 25 May 2021
  • Ignatius is a foreign affairs columnist for The Washington Post and the author of a ton of spy thrillers over the years.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Impressed by his knowledge of foreign affairs and language skills, The Times hired him as a copy boy.
    Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 9 July 2023
  • What the Fox News host's flip-flop on the invasion of Ukraine says about his influence and read on foreign affairs.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Both the ministry and Ukraine’s first deputy minister of foreign affairs shared images of the mosque to Twitter.
    Joel Shannon, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Slutsky is the head of the state Duma's foreign affairs committee.
    Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • So Menendez is cooked, and President Biden has a wider lane in foreign affairs now.
    Fox News Staff, Fox News, 23 Sep. 2023
  • And very few pages in those papers were devoted to foreign affairs.
    Dexter Fergie, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Hasan Akhund, the former acting minister of foreign affairs, went so far as to urge Afghans who worked with the U.S. and had fled to return to the country.
    Fox News, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Borrell, who serves as the high representative of the E.U. for foreign affairs, said some of the blame for what happened should fall on Trump.
    Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2021
  • And that, in turn, would require informing the public about foreign affairs.
    Andrew Lanham, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The statements on foreign affairs used to give a sense of what the leadership deemed to be the most important developments around the world.
    Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The comments highlight the intraparty divide over how involved the U.S. should be in foreign affairs.
    Brittany Bernstein, National Review, 11 Oct. 2023
  • David Ignatius writes a twice-a-week foreign affairs column for The Washington Post.
    David Ignatius, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
  • The French foreign affairs ministry and Macron’s office did not respond to requests for comment.
    Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
  • But his rhetoric and self-regard have long exceeded France’s power and Mr. Macron’s skills and instincts in foreign affairs.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 20 June 2022
  • Adam Taylor writes about foreign affairs for The Washington Post.
    Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The potential change at the helm of Ukraine’s foreign affairs comes a mere two months ahead of the election of new leadership in key ally Washington.
    Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Adam Taylor writes about foreign affairs for The Washington Post.
    Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
  • But a majority floor vote was required to boot Omar from foreign affairs.
    Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
  • In the early eighties, at Harvard, Blinken wrote dozens of columns in the Crimson about politics and foreign affairs.
    Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Fred Mitchell, the island nation’s minister of foreign affairs, said an attempt to block removal from the Bahamas could drag on for months or even years.
    Jim Wyss, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2022
  • What's clear is that foreign affairs and geopolitics have returned as issues that could shape the opinions of U.S. voters.
    Josh Boak, ajc, 18 May 2022
  • And his foreign affairs adviser Celso Amorim was in Caracas for the vote.
    Juan Pablo Spinetto, The Mercury News, 31 July 2024
  • Tariq Aziz was his deputy prime minister, at one point, and his minister of foreign affairs.
    Peter Bergen, CNN, 14 Mar. 2023
  • That’s a higher proportion than the overall 27 percent of Americans who spend more to deal with their qualms about the economy and foreign affairs.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The clock on that deadline was to start once Venezuela’s foreign affairs ministry notified U.S. officials of the judge’s decision.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Minister of foreign affairs for Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba did not shoot the idea down in a briefing with reporters yesterday.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The duo discussed various topics from kitchen-table issues to foreign affairs.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Stephen Henriques, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The idea comes from the Blue Stockings Society, an English literary circle where women gathered to talk about books and discuss current and foreign affairs, the same way men did every night at clubs over a glass of gin and a box of cigars.
    Francesca Faccani, Glamour, 3 Oct. 2024

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