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Foreign Office

NOUN
  1. the government department in charge of foreign relations

How To Use Foreign Office In A Sentence

  • The Colonial Office was absorbed into the Foreign Office.
  • The foreign office budget has been halved since 2010, with embassies closed or downsized. Times, Sunday Times
  • A leading opponent of the war in Afghanistan took on Foreign Office minister Peter Hain in a debate in Brighton last week.
  • The foreign affairs committee also accused the foreign office of hindering its investigation into the government report, whose findings were published last December. Times, Sunday Times
  • At the onset of the Second World War, the young diplomat was seconded from the Foreign Office to Number 10 Downing Street. Democracy vs. Hypocrisy
  • A Foreign Office minister said that the export of bio materials had not broken international rules.
  • Then an official of the Foreign Office lunched my editor and told him my report was ‘not helpful’.
  • In January, Liberal Democrat MP Malcolm Bruce urged Foreign Office ministers to back Gregory's plea against her sentence.
  • But Churchill's enthusiasm for a summit meeting was not yet fully shared by the Foreign Office and cabinet colleagues.
  • He joined the foreign policy unit in the Politburo in 1971, and became Secretary of State in the Foreign Office in 1985.
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