How to Use multilateral in a Sentence

multilateral

adjective

• Chung said the efforts to push a change of course in Nicaragua are multilateral.
  — Christopher Sherman, Star Tribune, 10 June 2021
• The starting point must be restoring trust in the multilateral system.
  — Time, 10 Aug. 2023
• The hope is to reform the structure of finance to get such multilateral development banks to lend more and at better rates.
  — Elaine Kurtenbach, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2023
• Our multilateral institutions, norms and treaties have failed to keep up with the rapid pace of change, and this threatens global order.
  — Henry M. Paulson Jr., WSJ, 14 Dec. 2020
• There have been no multilateral search and rescue efforts for the missing women and children.
  — Nadia Murad, CNN, 16 Aug. 2021
• Why is the World Bank, as the largest multilateral institution at only 35%?
  — Frank Van Gansbeke, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
• China is not seen by analysts to be the main cause of African debt distress in most cases, as countries also owe huge sums to multilateral banks and private lenders.
  — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 5 Sep. 2024
• In the business world, few leaders are equipped to deal with the competing demands of multilateral stakeholders.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024
• Fans of the multilateral trading system boast about its openness.
  — The Economist, 11 July 2020
• To that end, Beijing has prolonged multilateral discussions about how to manage the region’s territorial disputes—and used the extra time to change the facts on the ground.
  — John Lee, Foreign Affairs, 21 Nov. 2023
• Trump repositioned the United States in the world, pulling the U.S. out of a number of multilateral trade deals and climate agreements in favor of a more insular foreign policy.
  — Jonathan Lemire, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Jan. 2021
• The defense of democracy has always been one of the major reasons for multilateral action.
  — Mihir Sharma, Sun Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
• Some of the leaders said the weekend meeting, which comes in advance of a major climate summit this week, helped reestablish a multilateral system that had been broken in recent years.
  — Annie Linskey, Chico Harlann and Seung Min Kim, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Nov. 2021
• Beijing has called for debt of multilateral lenders such as the World Bank to be included in restructuring of struggling nations’ loans, a move that the lender has firmly rejected.
  — Ruchi Bhatia, Bloomberg.com, 14 Feb. 2023
• But Trump is reluctant to end the treaty unless China is included in a new multilateral agreement.
  — Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 26 June 2020
• These risks are grave and require swift multilateral action.
  — Chris Inglis, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2021
• Trump openly shunned multilateral trade partnerships, so this would be a big change in policy.
  — Kevin Miller and Melinda Grenier, oregonlive, 15 Nov. 2020
• In many multilateral settings today, non-Western states often opt to negotiate as a team rather than parley with the U.S. and its allies alone.
  — Comfort Ero, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2024
• Any new multilateral system for export controls must be done with partners so that many countries impose the same limits, Mr. Estevez said last month.
  — New York Times, 5 July 2022
• Not to mention, of course, a history of bilateral and multilateral engagements on which the US can double down.
  — Justin Sherman, Wired, 25 Nov. 2020
• Guterres also suggested a New Global Deal to solve the crisis, built on a multilateral approach.
  — Zamira Rahim, CNN, 22 Sep. 2020
• One of the world’s leading multilateral financial institutions has joined a chorus of criticism of huge tax cuts announced by the UK government last week that sent the pound plunging to a record low.
  — Mark Thompson, CNN, 28 Sep. 2022
• Ukraine’s financial needs, according to officials from Kyiv and the multilateral groups, fall into two main categories: short term and long term.
  — Yuka Hayashi, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2022
• Beijing says that global multilateral banks and commercial creditors have failed to provide relief to the poor despite holding much of their debt.
  — Eric Martin, Bloomberg.com, 12 Nov. 2020
• She’s been vocal about the need to reform the multilateral banks and bringing lower-income countries into the conversation.
  — Time, 21 June 2023
• President Trump then became the only leader to walk away from the agreement, in keeping with his rejection of multilateral efforts.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2020
• The rial has repeatedly hit record lows against the dollar since the Trump administration in 2018 pulled out of the multilateral nuclear deal and restored strict sanctions on Iran.
  — David S. Cloud, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
• Gabuev said Xi had chosen the occasion for his meeting with Putin carefully, a multilateral setting with plenty of leaders’ meetings on the sidelines.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
• In other words, such a listing could be the basis for governments or multilateral organizations to ban or highly restrict trade in a species.
  — Erika Fry, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024
• BlackRock took on less risk by using counterparty clearing and multilateral trading.
  — Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024