Sentence examples for the recent affair from inspiring English sources

You would think that Bullygate, the recent affair in which Brown defended himself against charges that he was a bad boss, would have taught him something.

A case in point is the recent affair in which the German engineering firm Siemens withdrew from a joint venture with Areva, the French nuclear-energy company, and forged a partnership with Areva's Russian competitor, Rosatom.

This cover up of the recent affair leads to some of the mystery concerning his wife's death.

Us Weekly obtained intimate photos of Stewart and Sanders, her "Snow White" director, and sources confirmed the recent affair to several outlets.

Is this the next season of Homeland or the recent affair involving retired Gen. David Petraeus -- wartime hero, head of the Central Intelligence Agency and mastermind behind the Army's counterinsurgency doctrine?

They planned to spend the summer with the poet Lord Byron, whose recent affair with Claire had left her pregnant.

Compared with most Shinto shrines, which were founded hundreds of years ago, the dedication of the Yasukuni shrine was a relatively recent affair.

Savage is, or has been, a compulsive philanderer -- and now, just when the chaos caused by his most recent affair has ebbed and he has pledged himself to fidelity, a small voice on the phone announces the reappearance of one of his most shameful episodes.

I had a feeling the recent "Statsgate" affair had helped Daniel to make up his mind to leave us for a research role on a magazine.

Many Pakistanis now believe Sufis to be the allies of American intelligence operatives, a belief only strengthened by the recent Raymond Davis affair, in which a Central Intelligence Agency contractor was detained in the killing of two Pakistanis.

The Mirror harked on memories of the recent Profumo affair to depict the traditional Conservative ruling class as out-of-touch, over-privileged, effete, depraved, amateurish and backward-looking – "toffs", in fact.