Sentence examples for affairs of which from inspiring English sources

It's a parlous state of affairs of which the city should be thoroughly ashamed.

It's hard to see the salesmanship because you're constantly being distracted by one of the not very exciting love affairs, of which there are four or five at any given moment.

Lincoln told Seward early on, "I shall have to depend upon you for taking care of these matters of foreign affairs, of which I know so little, and with which I reckon you are familiar".

He is also fiercely ambitious and holds a range of often unpredictable views, especially on foreign affairs, of which, as a former diplomat and accomplished traveller and writer, he is expert.Drawing on great knowledge of the wars in both Iraq where he served as a post-invasion administrator and Afghanistan, Mr Stewart is best known as a critic of liberal intervention.

General de Gaulle censored television news, allowed the Algerian war and its horrors to continue four years after he took power, allowed police brutality against striking workers, witheld French contributions to the UN, and had a unilateralist approach to world affairs of which Dick Cheney would approve.

This is to represent the pleasure that arises here as directed at some state of affairs of which it is cognisant, rather than supposing simply that the thought of someone's misfortune causes a feeling of pleasure.

Chanel is the aggressor in the short-lived affair of which little is known, that began in 1920, seven years after she attended the world premiere of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring".

The Labour MP for Rhondda, a prominent critic of News International over the phone-hacking affair, of which he is a victim, said he had recounted his version of events in a witness statement to the Leveson inquiry.

In the luxurious house of a friend of Teller's in downtown Hollywood, the scriptwriter Peter Prince and I listened while Teller delivered an impassioned monologue justifying his actions over the Oppenheimer affair (of which more later).

Therefore, a part of a complex state of affairs, s, is one of those states of affairs out of which s, or an analysis of s, is constructed.

The House of Lords economic affairs committee, of which Turnbull is a member, is due to publish a report on the housing sector imminently.