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
• In return, the U.S. is expected to agree to a multilateral approach.
  — Washington Post, 22 Jan. 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
• The move also pushes the U.K. and Italy center stage in multilateral processes for 2021.
  — Jean Chemnick, Scientific American, 2 Apr. 2020
• 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
• The French had insisted that the tax was only a temporary measure and would be repealed as soon as governments were able to reach a multilateral agreement on tax reform.
  — The Economist, 23 Jan. 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
• Last year, Colombia partnered with Germany, Kenya, and France to explore programs that might forgive sovereign debt in exchange for nature protection and climate action, drawing the attention of multilateral development banks.
  — Justin Worland/bogotá, TIME, 29 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024