How to Use foreign policy in a Sentence

foreign policy

noun
  • When Biden came to the White House in 2021, his foreign policy goals were more modest.
    Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2023
  • The two have tangled over their names, foreign policy and more, with no end in sight.
    Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 29 Aug. 2023
  • If the White House changes hands in 2025, brace for a reset that shifts the focus of our foreign policy from the Atlantic to the Americas.
    Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • And two of them lost arguably due to foreign policy issues.
    NBC News, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The two countries have gone head-to-head in trade, foreign policy, and the race for technology in recent years.
    Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2023
  • As Hanke points out, sanctions now stand as a prime weapon of U.S. foreign policy.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2023
  • More broadly, Turkey needs to show the West that its foreign policy is not all about protesting, Mr. Han said.
    Safak Timur, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Some charter members of the school of neoconservative foreign policy made the risky choice to ride the tiger.
    Samuel Moyn, The New Republic, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Turkey, in its foreign policy, has tried to use rescue and relief work as part of its larger mission to the world.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Posters used it to critique US foreign policy and have claimed that the letter changed their perspective.
    WIRED, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Building and then bolstering the global coalition allied with Ukraine has been a top White House foreign policy goal for the past year.
    Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Who advised him to attack Trump and weigh in on foreign policy before entering the race?
    Audrey Fahlberg, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
  • There are many reasons that this has been (and should be) the case, not least of which is the rampant chaos of fifty states crafting their own rules and, as a result, interfering with U.S. foreign policy.
    Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Rubio has been deeply engaged on foreign policy issues in the Senate.
    Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
  • And so Prigozhin is both too ruthless to arrest and also too important to the overall foreign policy of Russia.
    Yasmeen Serhan, Time, 27 June 2023
  • None of the three candidates have proposed a meaningful break from Tsai’s foreign policy.
    David Sacks, Foreign Affairs, 10 Jan. 2024
  • On foreign policy, Biden ordered the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Afghanistan, which ended the country's 20-year war in that country, but the exit proved to be chaotic and deadly.
    Michael Scherer, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
  • In recent years, the U.S. foreign policy establishment has become more alert to matters of race.
    Naima Green-Riley, Foreign Affairs, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Sadly, this embrace of the greatest foreign policy mankind has ever conceived is under attack right now, and from all sides.
    John Tamny, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • At Wednesday night’s debate, the candidates linked the crisis to immigration and foreign policy, and hammered home the toll.
    Jennifer Medina John Tully, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • President Biden likes to think of himself as the foreign policy president.
    ABC News, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The war in Ukraine was the first opportunity for GOP candidates to discuss their views on foreign policy, and predictably, the issue showed the deep divide within the party.
    Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Abbott used the business location to hype the state’s economy and to seemingly dip a toe into foreign policy.
    Allie Morris, Dallas News, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Her time at the United Nations was often spent publicly praising Trump’s foreign policy.
    Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The use of coordinated sanctions, both in Russia and as a broader foreign policy tool, doesn’t seem to be going away, experts agreed.
    Richard Vanderford, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2023
  • This would seem to suggest the nightmare of Russia's muscle for hire foreign policy will only end either when the war in Ukraine has reached its terminus or when Putin's time in the Kremlin has expired.
    Time, 25 Aug. 2023
  • At one point, Ramaswamy and Haley shouted over each other for more than 30 seconds when the conversation turned to foreign policy.
    Steve Peoples and Nicholas Riccardi, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The United States ability to use 'democracy' as foreign policy is gone.
    Aaron Kliegman, Fox News, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The president is commander in chief of America’s military and the chief steward of its foreign policy.
    William A. Galston, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023
  • In fact, Section 702 is not the surveillance law that was used to target his former campaign foreign policy adviser.
    Alan Feuer, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024

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