Sentence examples for affair based from inspiring English sources

The city's economy has always been a smoke-and-mirrors affair, based on tourism.

The third is the British model, an informal, common-law affair, based on an unwritten constitution.

Very respectable for a quirky, $15m, Gremlins-influenced affair based on Germanic folklore.

I don't think this was a love affair based on a misjudgment.

But Anglicanism is already a very untidy affair, based from its foundation on a series of expedient but messy compromises.

He has been filming a new drama about the Dreyfus affair, based on a novel by Robert Harris.

Richard Gowan is an analyst and commentator on international affairs based in New York, specializing in crisis management and the United Nations.

He was a member of the Group of 30, an international nonprofit body on economics and monetary affairs based in Washington, D.C.

"To the Soviet Union this is the most serious nationality question," said Shahram Chubin, an expert on Persian Gulf security affairs based in Geneva.

Then they dictate by telephone to several Web sites on Cuban affairs based in Miami, which give them small and irregular stipends.

Paul Cohen, group manager for the corporate and international affairs team at Ketchum, New York, part of the Omnicom Group, was named to a new role, director of international corporate and institutional affairs, based in the agency's Brussels office.