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State Department

Definitions

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  • noun a department of government in one of the 50 states
  • noun the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies

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Examples

  • Cabinet appointees, presidential advisors, and foreign-policy "experts" in our State Department is code for preferring Arab oil to Israeli democracy.

    Capitol Hill Coffee House 2009

  • Groups including Friends of the Earth and the New York- based Natural Resources Defense Council called last month for an investigation of what they described as State Department bias toward TransCanada during an environmental review.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • I called the State Department, I called Congress, I called senators, I called the Justice Department, to try and figure out why his money, all of it, was taken away from him.

    CNN Transcript Jun 28, 2008 2008

  • I called the State Department, I called senators, I called congressmen to try and find out what was going on.

    CNN Transcript Jun 28, 2008 2008

  • The same day that Newsweek broke the story of the "American Taliban," Lindh's mother called the State Department, the ACLU, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch, all of which refused to help her.

    It All Started With an American Taliban 2007

  • "The arrows are all pointing in the wrong direction," said Richard N. Haass, who was President Bush's first-term State Department policy planning director.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Glenn Greenwald 2006

  • "The arrows are all pointing in the wrong direction," said Richard N. Haass, who was President Bush's first-term State Department policy planning director.

    Is Bill Kristol writing George Bush's Middle East speeches? Glenn Greenwald 2006

  • I called the State Department intelligence chief and the deputy head of the CIA, and I said, I don ` t want papers that have been -- come out of committees.

    Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended 2004

  • It is commonly called the State Department and is headed by the secretary of state.

    Department of State 2002

  • I have been advised by the State Department that the Hungarian word for "cheers" is -- and I want to quote from the memo I got -- (laughter) -- "practically impossible to pronounce correctly."

    Remarks By The President In Toast To President Goncz ITY National Archives 1999

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