How to Use multilateral in a Sentence

multilateral

adjective

• 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
• 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
• In the business world, few leaders are equipped to deal with the competing demands of multilateral stakeholders.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024
• 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
• 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
• These risks are grave and require swift multilateral action.
  — Chris Inglis, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2021
• 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
• 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
• She’s been vocal about the need to reform the multilateral banks and bringing lower-income countries into the conversation.
  — Time, 21 June 2023
• 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
• Biden abandoned the policy of maximum pressure in favor of multilateral diplomacy and has nothing to show for it.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 3 Dec. 2022
• Before heading into a meeting of the full coalition, the leaders posed for a group photo, a tradition at multilateral gatherings.
  — Arkansas Online, 17 July 2022
• Austin had stressed the need for multilateral partnerships with nations in the Indo-Pacific, which Wei suggested was an attempt to back China into a corner.
  — Syawalludin Zain and David Rising, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2022
• Several organizations have sketched out escape routes from the debt trap, including more low-cost lending from multilateral banks like the World Bank.
  — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• And the largely inadequate global response to both Covid and climate change seemed to raise serious doubts about the value of multilateral diplomacy.
  — Aaron David Miller, CNN, 23 Dec. 2021
• Wrapping up the panel, Winters summed up the collective opinion that, while Glasgow was a huge step forward, a multilateral approach to leveling the carbon playing field is the key to stemming climate change.
  — Dan Reilly, Fortune, 23 May 2022
• For many years after the end of the Cold War, the United States played the role of a benign hegemon, stabilizing the global system, providing public goods, and fostering multilateral problem solving.
  — Roland Rich, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
• As the nation’s nuclear capabilities have grown, multilateral diplomatic efforts to rein it in have ground to a halt.
  — Time, 6 Oct. 2022
• The Trumpian right wants an America that’s out only for itself; the progressive left wants to delegate the job to multilateral organizations like the United Nations.
  — Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2024
• The meeting’s co-hosts, the United Nations and Pakistan’s government, said more than $9 billion had been pledged from bilateral and multilateral partners.
  — Reuters, CNN, 10 Jan. 2023
• Some in Israel hope to see a multilateral administration in Gaza with reconstruction funds from Arab states.
  — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2023
• Myanmar’s currency lost a third of its value against the dollar last year after the coup triggered a freeze on parts of the nation’s foreign reserves held in the US and suspension of multilateral aid -- both key sources of foreign currency supplies.
  — Khine Lin Kyaw, Bloomberg.com, 16 June 2022
• Other multilateral agreements have been signed to eliminate the production and use of harmful chemicals and restrict the movement of hazardous waste across borders.
  — Jessica F. Green, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024