How to Use foreign aid in a Sentence
foreign aid
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In the other, the court slowed the effort to block the release of up to $2 billion in foreign aid.
—Mark Sherman, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2025
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And so the scale of its foreign aid program is quite modest.
—CBS News, 2 Nov. 2022
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Perhaps the best way to understand where the foreign aid world is, as of late March, is through the stages of grief.
—Dylan Matthews, Vox, 28 Mar. 2025
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Quick spending of foreign aid can lead to 'fraud, waste and abuse' Keep an eye on the money.
—Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2023
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In 2007, for instance, foreign aid paid for more than three-quarters of the cost of Liberia’s health care.
—Jessica Eise, Quartz Africa, 21 June 2019
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Boom and Bust How Sierra Leone lost faith in foreign aid.
—The Dial, 10 Apr. 2025
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And foreign aid amounts to a whopping 1 percent of the budget.
—Norman J. Ornstein, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2023
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The law passed Congress in April as part of a larger foreign aid package.
—Julia Shapero, The Hill, 20 Dec. 2024
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Please refer to the work of the late economist Peter Bauer for the nature of foreign aid.
—WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
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The heart of the US debate over Central America is the level of foreign aid to the region.
—The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2018
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The world’s biggest aid donors are pulling back, urging a rethink of foreign aid.
—Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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Arms dealers rushed to the country, backed by billions in foreign aid.
—Justin Scheck, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
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In the world of foreign aid, $13.6 billion is real money.
—Arkansas Online, 12 Mar. 2022
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Afghanistan was a poor country before the Taliban took over, propped up by foreign aid.
—NBC News, 17 Nov. 2021
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Trump this morning signaled on Twitter that at least part of it could come from cuts to foreign aid.
—Stephen Koff, cleveland.com, 12 Feb. 2018
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In some places, the refugees boost local businesses and act as a magnet for foreign aid.
—The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
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The group has slashed hundreds of thousands of jobs and hollowed out foreign aid programs.
—Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 8 Apr. 2025
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Trump said, adding that foreign aid to Honduras and other nations is at stake.
—Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News, 4 Apr. 2018
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Hodeidah is home to Yemen’s main port, through which the vast majority of Yemen’s foreign aid and food flows.
—Dion Nissenbaum, WSJ, 14 June 2018
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And foreign aid, like all of politics since the beginning, is all about quid pro quo.
—John Kass, Twin Cities, 11 Dec. 2019
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And foreign aid, like all of politics since the beginning, is all about quid pro quo.
—John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 5 Dec. 2019
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All the foreign aid programs in the world combined cannot improve the lives of the world’s poorest citizens more than freer trade.
—WSJ, 17 Oct. 2018
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But so does the fact that the Taliban — or whoever is in power — needs foreign aid to govern.
—BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2021
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Biden responded by pointing to the billions of dollars that the United States spends in foreign aid around the world.
—Arkansas Online, 11 Jan. 2023
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Biden responded by pointing to the billions of dollars that the United States spends in foreign aid around the world.
—Christopher Sherman, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2023
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Biden responded by pointing to the billions of dollars that the United States spends in foreign aid around the world.
—Arkansas Online, 11 Jan. 2023
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Biden responded by pointing to the billions of dollars that the United States spends in foreign aid around the world.
—Arkansas Online, 11 Jan. 2023
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The point of Trump’s tour was to highlight all the ways US foreign aid is helping children in the developing world.
—Alexia Fernández Campbell, Vox, 9 Oct. 2018
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In recent months, the U.S., France, and other European countries have announced sweeping foreign aid cuts.
—Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
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South Sudan has been dependent on foreign aid since its independence in 2011, and people there face the compounding tragedies of war and malnutrition, making cholera outbreaks even more deadly.
—Eve Sampson, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
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