How to Use multilateral in a Sentence

multilateral

adjective
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  • Chung said the efforts to push a change of course in Nicaragua are multilateral.
    — Christopher Sherman, Star Tribune, 10 June 2021
  • The project has the backing of Big Tech, multilateral banks, and one of the world’s largest telecoms companies.
    — Amrita Khalid, Quartz, 21 Nov. 2019
  • So a multilateral agreement to weaken the dollar, would in turn increase the value of, for example, the euro or the British pound.
    — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 6 June 2019
  • The starting point must be restoring trust in the multilateral system.
    — Time, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The hope is to reform the structure of finance to get such multilateral development banks to lend more and at better rates.
    — Elaine Kurtenbach, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Our multilateral institutions, norms and treaties have failed to keep up with the rapid pace of change, and this threatens global order.
    — Henry M. Paulson Jr., WSJ, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Russia has hosted multilateral talks on Afghanistan in the past, but this is the first time the Taliban are known to have accepted an invitation.
    — Jessica Donati, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2018
  • The Davos forum, marking its 50th year, has always sought to foster a sense of multilateral unity.
    — Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2020
  • In return, the U.S. is expected to agree to a multilateral approach.
    — Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2020
  • There have been no multilateral search and rescue efforts for the missing women and children.
    — Nadia Murad, CNN, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Why is the World Bank, as the largest multilateral institution at only 35%?
    — Frank Van Gansbeke, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The move also pushes the U.K. and Italy center stage in multilateral processes for 2021.
    — Jean Chemnick, Scientific American, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Trump is said to prefer such deals to wide-sweeping multilateral agreements.
    — Grace Dobush, Fortune, 5 July 2018
  • China is not seen by analysts to be the main cause of African debt distress in most cases, as countries also owe huge sums to multilateral banks and private lenders.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 5 Sep. 2024
  • In the business world, few leaders are equipped to deal with the competing demands of multilateral stakeholders.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Fans of the multilateral trading system boast about its openness.
    — The Economist, 11 July 2020
  • And one cost of this multilateral diplomacy was the expiration of the UN arms embargo.
    — Eli Lake, Twin Cities, 25 Oct. 2019
  • To that end, Beijing has prolonged multilateral discussions about how to manage the region’s territorial disputes—and used the extra time to change the facts on the ground.
    — John Lee, Foreign Affairs, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Trump repositioned the United States in the world, pulling the U.S. out of a number of multilateral trade deals and climate agreements in favor of a more insular foreign policy.
    — Jonathan Lemire, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Jan. 2021
  • The defense of democracy has always been one of the major reasons for multilateral action.
    — Mihir Sharma, Sun Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The arena in which Trump’s policies have done the greatest damage while being least recognized is his across-the-board weakening of multilateral problem-solving and therefore the rule of law.
    — Jessica T. Mathews, The New York Review of Books, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Some of the leaders said the weekend meeting, which comes in advance of a major climate summit this week, helped reestablish a multilateral system that had been broken in recent years.
    — Annie Linskey, Chico Harlann and Seung Min Kim, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Beijing has called for debt of multilateral lenders such as the World Bank to be included in restructuring of struggling nations’ loans, a move that the lender has firmly rejected.
    — Ruchi Bhatia, Bloomberg.com, 14 Feb. 2023
  • But Trump is reluctant to end the treaty unless China is included in a new multilateral agreement.
    — Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 26 June 2020
  • The French had insisted that the tax was only a temporary measure and would be repealed as soon as governments were able to reach a multilateral agreement on tax reform.
    — The Economist, 23 Jan. 2020
  • These risks are grave and require swift multilateral action.
    — Chris Inglis, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Trump openly shunned multilateral trade partnerships, so this would be a big change in policy.
    — Kevin Miller and Melinda Grenier, oregonlive, 15 Nov. 2020
  • In many multilateral settings today, non-Western states often opt to negotiate as a team rather than parley with the U.S. and its allies alone.
    — Comfort Ero, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Hopes that more climate cash will follow Countries also anticipate that this deal will send signals that help drive funding from other sources, like multilateral development banks and private sources.
    — Seth Borenstein, Sibi Arasu, TIME, 24 Nov. 2024
  • One issue was whether to create a new organization to handle the funding, or leave it to the Global Environment Facility, a multilateral collection of funds created in 1991.
    — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 5 Nov. 2024

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