foreign service

Example Sentences

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At one point in February, Marocco tried ordering the immediate return of foreign service officers stationed abroad.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2025

Cynthia Iglesias Guven worked at the Agriculture Department since 1998, living around the world as a foreign service officer and eventually taking a senior job in Washington.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 4, 2025

"I see foreign service officers that have spent their entire lives serving - a large part of it overseas - and the sacrifices they made," they said.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2025

Instead, he filed it on the “dissent channel,” a forum that embassies created during the Vietnam War that let any foreign service officer express his personal view to higher-ups.

From Slate • Dec. 23, 2024

An unfortunate fact is that there is a pronounced leakage of British naval men to foreign service, attracted by the pay and the chances of promotion.

From England by Fox, Frank, Sir