How to Use foreign service in a Sentence

foreign service

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Definition of foreign servicenext
  • But how to make the foreign service fit for the future?
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2020
  • Whites make up around 87% of the most senior ranks of the foreign service.
    — Nicole Gaouette, CNN, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The foreign service itself, the diplomatic corps, has been stressed.
    — CBS News, 8 July 2020
  • There's a lot for future foreign service officers to learn in this book.
    — NBC News, 13 Mar. 2022
  • The United States, with its foreign service in disarray, was caught off guard.
    — Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Her first foreign service post, in 2009, was a two-year stint in Mexico, followed by a posting to South Africa.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Andrew joined Malta’s foreign service, and worked in embassies in Berlin and New Delhi.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
  • There are conflicting accounts about whether he was paid for his foreign service.
    — Nate Jones, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
  • His first career was as a foreign service officer in the U.S. Department of State.
    — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Bárcena, 63, retired this month after 42 years in Mexico’s foreign service, the last two of which were the most unusual.
    — Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Sigg, who left Switzerland’s foreign service in 1998, has needed his diplomatic skills again.
    — New York Times, 5 May 2021
  • Irion grew up in several countries with her family as her dad works for the U.S. State Department in the foreign service.
    — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 1 Apr. 2022
  • My father was a U.S. foreign service officer who met my mother when he was posted in Alexandria, Egypt.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2022
  • According to her father, Sabika Sheikh had hoped to one day join Pakistan's foreign service and become a diplomat.
    — Fox News, 23 May 2018
  • The number of people taking the foreign service exam has dropped noticeably.
    — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 27 Nov. 2020
  • The welcome kit included toys, coloring books, puzzles, and games for the children of the foreign service officers.
    — Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Bondarev went on to deliver a stinging critique of Russia’s foreign service and its chief diplomat, Sergey Lavrov.
    — Anton Troianovski, BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2022
  • The second diplomatic staffer also at the table was Suriya Jayanti, a foreign service officer based in Kyiv.
    — Desmond Butler, Michael Biesecker, Matthew Lee, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Nov. 2019
  • The country’s foreign service is damaged and demoralised.
    — The Economist, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Meanwhile China’s net spending on foreign services, mostly tourism, surged from $50 billion to more than $80 billion over the same period.
    — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2019
  • Brink, a career foreign service officer, has served since 2019 as ambassador to Slovakia.
    — Matthew Lee, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Yet its foreign service has never been more demoralised; the Chinese one never more confident.
    — The Economist, 20 Apr. 2020
  • His organization’s next push is to see the U.S. appoint a foreign service officer as ambassador to Qatar.
    — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2021
  • In May, Blinken put on an academic gown to address a new generation of foreign service graduates at Georgetown.
    — David Montgomery, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Langenkamp was, improbably, the third foreign service officer at the State Department to die while walking or biking in the Washington area this year.
    — Alicia Parlapiano, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2022
  • But the cables indicate how members of the American foreign service, at least, held the military directly responsible for some of the deaths.
    — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2017
  • About 100 diplomats dropped the veil of invisibility that often defines their work to demonstrate in full view of the imposing Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs that is the home base for the foreign service.
    — Elaine Ganley, ajc, 2 June 2022
  • The book then covers the use of M1s in U.S. and foreign service, and rounds out its coverage discussing variants, including bridging and engineering versions.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 May 2018
  • In response, that foreign service officer was reassigned to Chad.
    — Sarah Harrison, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2023
  • American foreign service officers leave war zones, only to die on roads around the nation’s capital.
    — Alicia Parlapiano, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2022

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