How to Use foreign aid in a Sentence

foreign aid

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  • And so the scale of its foreign aid program is quite modest.
    — CBS News, 2 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • And foreign aid amounts to a whopping 1 percent of the budget.
    — Norman J. Ornstein, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Please refer to the work of the late economist Peter Bauer for the nature of foreign aid.
    — WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Arms dealers rushed to the country, backed by billions in foreign aid.
    — Justin Scheck, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
  • In the world of foreign aid, $13.6 billion is real money.
    — Arkansas Online, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Afghanistan was a poor country before the Taliban took over, propped up by foreign aid.
    — NBC News, 17 Nov. 2021
  • And foreign aid, like all of politics since the beginning, is all about quid pro quo.
    — John Kass, Twin Cities, 11 Dec. 2019
  • But so does the fact that the Taliban — or whoever is in power — needs foreign aid to govern.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • The foreign aid bill still needs to be approved by the full House, but a vote is expected Saturday.
    — Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Some 60% of Britons thinks the government spends too much on foreign aid, according to the pollster YouGov.
    — Alex Morales, Bloomberg.com, 25 Nov. 2020
  • There's a great malaise right now within countries about foreign aid and giving.
    — Ayesha Ali, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The health system, heavily reliant on foreign aid, neared collapse in the wake of the Taliban takeover.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Then, the foreign aid groups who promised all sorts of help moved on as Ebola spread into more populous towns.
    — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Democrats then blocked a GOP effort to cut foreign aid in the package — another one of Trump’s demands.
    — al, 28 Dec. 2020
  • The risk of the diversion of foreign aid in wartorn countries has long bedeviled the U.S. and other countries.
    — T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Some Americans think of foreign aid as nothing more than money down the drain.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2021
  • At the massive scale of US foreign aid, even small spending changes can help or hurt hundreds of thousands of people.
    — Caitlin Hu, Kareem Khadder and Sugam Pokharel, CNN, 3 Nov. 2020
  • And there's a lot of wariness to continue sending foreign aid.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2023
  • In the Senate, a group of Republicans opposed to the foreign aid kept the chamber open all night to rail against it before the final vote.
    — Mary Clare Jalonick The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 24 Feb. 2024
  • This kind of reasoning tips the scales, because foreign aid accounts for two-thirds of the money spent on malaria.
    — The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
  • This is the second weapons package announced from the foreign aid supplemental that passed in the House and Senate last month.
    — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 10 May 2024
  • Carroll blamed the lack of support for the virus-hunting work in the past in part on the Trump administration’s wider disdain for foreign aid.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2020
  • Vought shares the president's disdain of foreign aid and has sought to cut it in previous budgets.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Nov. 2019
  • That is only one notch above Haiti, another failed state that has been lavished with foreign aid.
    — Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Papua New Guinea is the largest recipient of Australian foreign aid.
    — Rod McGuirk, Star Tribune, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Even with all these measures, the loss of the foreign aid from the United States and the European Union would have devastating effects.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
  • London has cut funding to the foreign office, foreign aid, and one of the country’s most significant soft power assets: the BBC.
    — Joshua Keating, Vox, 2 July 2024
  • The bill was partially intended to woo Republicans to pass a foreign aid bill that would earmark $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 31 July 2024

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