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the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies
the Department of State was created in 1789
How To Use Department of State In A Sentence
- There are transferred to the Department of State (a) all of the functions of the Office with respect to the aforesaid corporations, (b) the duty of winding up any affairs relating to the Office and functions terminated by this order which shall remain unliquidated on the effective date of this order, (c) the records, property, and funds of the Office, and (d) so much of the personnel of the Office as shall remain therein on the effective date of this order. EXECUTIVE ORDER 9710
- the Department of State was created in 1789
- And it would be good if the Department of State would weigh in with the Chinese Government to note the many obstacles that we have encountered in recent months and years.
- He has contracts with not only the CIA but the Department of Defense and of course, the Department of State, which is the one that brought him so much trouble in Iraq. CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2009
- The appointment of Harold Hongju Koh, Dean of the Yale Law School and an official in both the Clinton and Reagan administrations, to be Legal Advisor to the Department of State should be a no-brainer. Jay Michaelson: Pure Politics: The Koh Nomination Fight Drags On
- I authorize the Social Security Administration to release information about me in its records to the Department of State and U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
- Affairs (afterward called the Department of State, and including both foreign and domestic affairs), of the Treasury, and of War. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
- A nickname for the United States Department of State, whose offices were built in a formerly swampy area of Washington, D.C., known as Foggy Bottom because of vapors rising from the swamp. Foggy Bottom
- However, this failed to fructify because of the complex licensing procedures of the U.S. Department of State, which regulates the export of satellites and related systems and components.
- He sent an aide-memoire in these terms to the Department of State on 30 November 1949.