How to Use bilateral in a Sentence

bilateral

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  • That was my my government bilateral job with the Russian government.
    — CBS News, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Russia will be conspicuously absent from the meetings as the White House tries to make progress in bilateral talks with Moscow.
    — Sean Lyngaas, CNN, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The second set of Pakistani requests concerned bilateral issues such as India’s presence in Afghanistan.
    — Javid Ahmad, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Japan is now the largest bilateral donor of aid in Asia.
    — Damien Cave Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2023
  • At the same time, though, there is little appetite for that to be a bilateral process.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Beijing then swooped in at the last minute to steal the show — and the headlines — with a surprise bilateral accord with the United States.
    — The Editors, National Review, 15 Nov. 2021
  • At best these bilateral deals with Ukraine will serve as pledges of support.
    — Simon Shuster, TIME, 8 July 2024
  • The president will hold a bilateral meeting at 5:30 p.m. at the White House with the new British prime minister.
    — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 10 July 2024
  • No timing has been given for the meeting, which would be the first U.K.-Russia bilateral defense talks since 2013.
    — Jill Lawless and Jari Tanner, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Jan. 2022
  • And there is Trump the strategic competitor who felt cheated by China on Covid and the bilateral trade deal.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2024
  • The pair has not held any formal bilateral meetings since.
    — Ashok Sharma, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The Lakers said Davis has bilateral Achilles tendinopathy and a left hip spasm and James has left ankle peroneal tendinopathy.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Taiwan is one of the main sources of tension in the bilateral relationship.
    — Taijing Wu, arkansasonline.com, 1 Dec. 2024
  • That underscores the irony of the Chinese mantra of win-win in bilateral affairs as, in reality, that means that the Chinese win twice.
    — Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News, 20 June 2023
  • The major difference between the single-leg and bilateral hip thrust setup in in the foot placement.
    — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 10 Feb. 2023
  • There, and in three hours of bilateral meetings with Xi later that day, the Russian leader stressed his close alignment with China.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Typically, tonic-clonic seizures begin in both sides of the brain, but focal to bilateral tonic-clonic seizures start on one side of the brain, then spread to both sides.
    — Patti Greco, Health.com, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Then there really isn't much else to talk about in terms of bilateral relations.
    — CBS News, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Eight of the events were NATO events, like bilateral meetings with world leaders and working sessions.
    — Megan Lebowitz, NBC News, 16 July 2024
  • That bilateral agreement remains in force, but the United States deferred the outcome of its review when the four-year mark came up in January.
    — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 10 May 2024
  • Good bilateral ties are essential and need to be advanced given the state of world affairs, Kishida said.
    — Reuters, CNN, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The resumption of the bilateral summit — which in better times used to be an annual event — was the first sign of an effort to reset relations.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
  • In 2020, a bloody confrontation in the Galwan Valley had left dozens of soldiers dead and led to a deep freeze in bilateral relations between the two Asian giants.
    — Harsh V. Pant, Foreign Affairs, 14 Nov. 2024
  • The right toys should push kids to use both sides of their bodies to build bilateral coordination and motor planning.
    — Jamie Spain, Good Housekeeping, 19 Sep. 2022
  • As a deaf person who wears bilateral cochlear implants, the issue of accessibility has been close to her heart for a long time.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The effort aimed to broker bilateral deals between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
    — Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The event focused on Ukraine will take place on Thursday, along with bilateral meetings, according to the World Bank official.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2022
  • But if your dog develops a cataract in the right eye three years later, it’s considered a bilateral condition, and the insurer will deny the claim.
    — Kat Tretina, wsj.com, 8 Jan. 2024
  • In light of this, analysts in Pakistan have questioned the wisdom of Mr. Dar’s comments on restoring bilateral trade.
    — Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Beyond the fist bump, photos quickly emerged of a bilateral US-Saudi meeting not unlike dozens Biden has conducted in the last 18 months.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2022

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