Sentence examples for affairs we have from inspiring English sources

For this state of affairs we have Richard Nixon to thank.

In foreign affairs we have pursued our national interest robustly while remaining alive to the needs and interests of others.

After so many worries about organisational affairs, we have had a great World Cup with great games and a huge party atmosphere.

Having obtained our political independence from Britain to be the masters of our own affairs, we have now surrendered our sovereignty to the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund... Fianna Fáil has sometimes served Ireland very well, sometimes very badly.

In one of the day's stranger exchanges, Senator Graham asked James Johnson, Baltimore's chief of police, if his budget had been cut (it had), and told him that he should expect it to happen again: "I can tell people throughout this land, because of the fiscal state of affairs we have, there will be less police officers not more over the next decade.

As Sean at Make notes, this kit causes us to "lament the general state of affairs we have come to thanks to litigiousness, chemophobia, and flagging scientific literacy".

[Apparently she had an affair with Van Morrison.] We've been through it, we've had the affairs, we've had the breakups, we've had the nervous breakdowns.

Even in the realm of foreign affairs, we've inherited an international order that restrains conflict.

On foreign affairs, we've already begun enormously productive talks with many foreign leaders, much of it you've covered, to move forward toward stability, security and peace in the most troubled regions of the world, which there are many.

As chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs, we've seen firsthand the enormous toll of HIV/AIDS on families, communities and economies.

Christmas celebrations before the 19th century were not the quaint family affairs we've come to know, but were more akin to the outdoor orgies of Mardi Gras; farmers had free time (their fields were frozen over) and needed ways to kill it (winter was when wine and beer was traditionally ready to drink).