Sentence examples for internal affair from inspiring English sources

Roethke (2011, p. 38) underlines that "some scholars argue that territorial integrity merely safeguards the inviolability of international borders but does not regulate an internal affair such as secession".

They pretend relations between the island's two communities are an internal affair, even though, by treaty, it's been an international issue for 50 years.

"It's more an internal affair".

Bin Salman said Nimr's execution was an internal affair.

Russia's president, Dmitri A. Medvedev, called the elections "an internal affair" and pledged Russia's support.

That idea conflicts with China's obsessive insistence that Taiwan is an "internal" affair.

The PKI maintained that the coup attempt was an internal affair of the army.

"We considered what happened in Iran as an internal affair," he said.

Russia's shrinking violet of a president, Dmitry Medvedev, said the Belarus elections were an internal affair.

His travails as a would-be legislator, the authorities clearly believe, are an internal affair, not for foreign ears.

The Foreign Ministry responded by saying the detentions were an internal affair being handled according to law.