How to Use multilateral in a Sentence

multilateral

adjective
  • Chung said the efforts to push a change of course in Nicaragua are multilateral.
    — Christopher Sherman, Star Tribune, 10 June 2021
  • For too long, the designers of multilateral trade deals have lost sight of this.
    — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 7 Mar. 2025
  • These ties don’t yet add up to a single, multilateral alliance.
    — Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
  • But this was not wanting to be involved in a multilateral agreement.
    — NBC News, 4 June 2017
  • Trump is said to prefer such deals to wide-sweeping multilateral agreements.
    — Grace Dobush, Fortune, 5 July 2018
  • The starting point must be restoring trust in the multilateral system.
    — Time, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Fans of the multilateral trading system boast about its openness.
    — The Economist, 11 July 2020
  • There have been no multilateral search and rescue efforts for the missing women and children.
    — Nadia Murad, CNN, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Over many years, Democrats have been divided on the merits of multilateral free trade agreements.
    — Dan Balz, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2017
  • Our multilateral institutions, norms and treaties have failed to keep up with the rapid pace of change, and this threatens global order.
    — Henry M. Paulson Jr., WSJ, 14 Dec. 2020
  • The hope is to reform the structure of finance to get such multilateral development banks to lend more and at better rates.
    — Elaine Kurtenbach, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Feltman said leaders are questioning whether the multilateral system is the right way to move forward.
    — Richard Roth, CNN, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The project has the backing of Big Tech, multilateral banks, and one of the world’s largest telecoms companies.
    — Amrita Khalid, Quartz, 21 Nov. 2019
  • There are hints that the UAE will make further breaks from multilateral bodies in coming weeks.
    — Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • And yet, these alliances are by no means inevitable; the multilateral sinews that bind peoples and nations need to be cultivated when times are good and bad.
    — Time, 28 Oct. 2025
  • By far the most common reason for trips is bilateral or multilateral meetings.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 16 June 2026
  • In the business world, few leaders are equipped to deal with the competing demands of multilateral stakeholders.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The goal is to make Taiwan’s defense a multilateral concern—harder for any one partner to abandon.
    — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 6 Jan. 2026
  • For many in Europe, the question is now about how best to preserve any kind of multilateral cooperation.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2018
  • The Davos forum, marking its 50th year, has always sought to foster a sense of multilateral unity.
    — Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2020
  • So a multilateral agreement to weaken the dollar, would in turn increase the value of, for example, the euro or the British pound.
    — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 6 June 2019
  • The longer the multilateral talks go on without compromise, the more damage will be done to the American economy.
    — Jason Marczak, National Review, 13 Feb. 2018
  • China is not seen by analysts to be the main cause of African debt distress in most cases, as countries also owe huge sums to multilateral banks and private lenders.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Macron urged Europe to defend the global multilateral order, for the sake of the continent's sovereignty.
    — Fox News, 11 May 2018
  • Why is the World Bank, as the largest multilateral institution at only 35%?
    — Frank Van Gansbeke, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Russia has hosted multilateral talks on Afghanistan in the past, but this is the first time the Taliban are known to have accepted an invitation.
    — Jessica Donati, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2018
  • And one cost of this multilateral diplomacy was the expiration of the UN arms embargo.
    — Eli Lake, Twin Cities, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Our main challenge today is to maintain multilateral diplomacy and self-discipline.
    — Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
  • While the brand’s rocker sneakers are designed for forward propulsion, these training shoes are specially created for multilateral and side-to-side motions.
    — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Genuine alignment across governments, multilateral institutions and business can be hard to find.
    — Sanda Ojiambo, Fortune, 23 June 2026

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