How to Use State Department in a Sentence

State Department

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  • In response, the State Department vowed to hire more staff and get processing times back to normal by the end of the year.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Overnight, the State Department confirmed the death of 29 U.S. citizens in this conflict.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 15 Oct. 2023
  • The State Department of Health is offering Tetanus vaccines on site.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The State Department did not respond to requests for comment.
    — Solcyré Burga, TIME, 26 June 2024
  • The State Department later tapped her as a women’s health envoy.
    — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The State Department did not return a request for comment.
    — Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The State Department authorized the transfer of 25 F-35A fighter jets and engines last month.
    — Cate Brown, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The night before, the State Department also hosts a ceremony for the honorees.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 18 July 2024
  • The State Department says the step will enable the U.S. to more effectively restrict the group's access to financial support.
    — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The Idaho State Department of Agriculture did not respond to a request for comment.
    — Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2023
  • People renewing online do not need to mail their current passport to the State Department.
    — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 13 June 2024
  • The State Department’s decision was, strangely, kept close.
    — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2023
  • The new regulations—the most sweeping in decades—also cut the length of export licenses from four years to one and give the State Department greater authority to block sales.
    — David Kocieniewski / Bloomberg, TIME, 26 Apr. 2024
  • The State Department is urging Americans not to travel to Haiti amid fresh gang violence in the country, which declared a state of emergency last week.
    — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Officials with the White House and the State Department have both declined to discuss the potential extradition.
    — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 20 May 2024
  • The wall leading to his desk, inside a warren of State Department corridors, is lined with photographs of Americans from his list.
    — Louise Radnofsky and Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The senior State Department official would not speculate what threshold of crisis would have to be met in Haiti for Blinken to turn to that authority.
    — Michael Wilner, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Among the recent warnings: Ecuador got hit with a State Department advisory because of the risk of civil unrest, crime, and kidnapping.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
  • The State Department requires that employees sign their names to dissent cables, but the other two letters have no signatures.
    — Elliott Abrams, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Wait times for passport applications and renewals returned to their normal 6-8 week time frame in December, the State Department said.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 13 June 2024
  • Rogers was kept in the dark about initiatives, such as the secret diplomacy that set up Nixon’s trip to China, and was obliged to plead for information about programs that in most administrations were the purview of the State Department.
    — Norman Kempster, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The novel initiative would be subsidized by U.S. State Department funds.
    — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The State Department suggested travelers begin the process 6-9 months in advance of any travel and to check the validity of their passports frequently.
    — Joe Ruiz, CBS News, 2 Oct. 2023
  • After a long career in academia — interrupted by two years at the State Department — Professor Cohen has retired.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 8 July 2024
  • The group of nearly 30 influencers in Washington this week has an audience of around 40 million across social media channels, a State Department spokesperson said in an email.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune Europe, 10 July 2024
  • But as the crisis deepened, the State Department last week reversed its support and asked Henry to consider stepping down to make way for a transitional government.
    — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The eight-person team at the State Department is leading Washington’s efforts to ease the economic blowback for countries targeted by China.
    — Didi Tang, Fortune Asia, 27 May 2024
  • His goal, through the new State Department initiative, is to increase the agricultural productivity of the most nutritious and climate-hardy among them.
    — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Whitney Smith, a State Department spokesperson, confirmed the sale in a statement earlier this year and said Kerry travels commercially in his current role.
    — Thomas Catenacci, Fox News, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The State Department may also deny a taxpayer’s passport application or revoke their current passport.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 20 July 2024

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