Sentence examples for professional foreign from inspiring English sources

The Rogers Act of 1924 established a professional foreign service, but did not bar political nominees.

His European outlook also prompted an increase in the number of professional foreign orchestras (as many as ten in 1995).

Gary J. Bass, reviewing "The Crimean War," by Orlando Figes, calls that conflict "the first major war to be covered by professional foreign correspondents" (July 10).

Professional foreign correspondents almost never write about our troubles -- we are not the story -- but once we set out, unpredictable events and, often, competition, take over.

The Crimean War was the first major war to be covered by professional foreign correspondents, who reported on the disastrous blundering of commanders and the horrors of medical treatment at the battlefront.

While "major war" and "professional foreign correspondents" are open to definition, the Mexican War, begun in 1846 — seven years before the Crimean War — was the first foreign war covered extensively by journalists.

But, while a man who funds the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution may have warmed to Obama, there is no question that, in certain professional foreign-policy circles, Obama is often regarded with mistrust.

"NSA is a professional foreign-intelligence organization with a highly trained workforce, including brave and dedicated men and women from our armed forces," NSA spokesperson Vanee Vines said.

"We were shown certain pieces of evidence that did not contain anything concrete, neither geographical locations, nor names, nor evidence that samples had been taken by professionals," Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov said in a speech at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

But their efforts inadvertently hampered the work of the professionals, foreign rescue crews using sniffer dogs, and at least one team gave up and moved on to a less crowded location.

Don't be intimidated by Bono or Julian Lennon in the V.I.P. room: the crowd is a democratic mix of young professionals, foreign vacationers and dolled-up Niçoise on girls' nights out.