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  1. A flight board shows United Airlines flight UA88 (top) believed to be carrying blind rights activist Chen Guangcheng, is seen at Beijing International Airport on May 19, 2012. Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng left China for the United States with his family on May 19, the US State...
  2. WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 17: Special Representative and Policy Coordinator for Burma Derek J. Mitchell listens during a joint news conference conducted by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Burmese Foreign Minister U Wunna Maung at the State Department May 17, 2012 in Washington,...
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The United States Department of State, often referred to as the State Department, is the Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of the United States government, similar to foreign ministries, foreign offices, ministries of external relations, etc. in other countries. It is administered by the Secretary of State, the office of which is held by... Full Article At Wikipedia.org

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  1. we [the State Department and the military] coordinate closely on a day to day basis
    SOURCE: The Stanford Daily 2 weeks ago
  2. I'm pretty sure that I was notified by the White House, not the State Department
    – Bill Clinton SOURCE: Entertainment Tonight 2 weeks ago
  3. senior State Department official ... the War on Terror is over.
    SOURCE: The News-Herald 2 weeks ago
  4. America's Soul in the Balance: The Holocaust, FDR's State Department, and the Moral Disgrace of an American Aristocracy
    SOURCE: Los Angeles Times 2 weeks ago
  5. Avant was out of touch partly because she didn't interact often with the State Department or anyone else in Washington
    SOURCE: Big Hollywood 2 weeks ago
  6. This was a consular matter handled by the State Department.
    SOURCE: Foreign Policy 2 weeks ago
  7. Local economic development corporations, as well as the state Texas Enterprise Fund, are providing attractive incentives. This, along with the relaxed regulatory environment and supportive State Department of Commerce adds up to a favorable climate for business
    SOURCE: Business Journal of Portland 2 weeks ago
  8. Most of the work I do is as a concert performer and as a cultural envoy for the U. S. State Department
    SOURCE: TheaterMania.com 2 weeks ago
  9. As Jews in Germany faced increasing discrimination and acts of violence sponsored by Hitler’s government, American Jewish leaders urged the U.S. State Department to alter the immigration standards.
    SOURCE: OpPapers.com 2 weeks ago
  10. Upon reading the transcript I realized I seriously misspoke by using the phrase there has been arrogance and stupidity' by the United States in Iraq. This represents neither my views nor those of the State Department. I apologize.
    SOURCE: The Burbank Digest 2 weeks ago
  11. I don't even want to meet with the State Department anymore, because we aren't getting anything out of them
    SOURCE: Scientific American 2 weeks ago
  12. Students’ experiences with Global Classrooms throughout the year help them emerge as leaders at the Model UN conference and develop life skills they never forget ... Today, students from the Washington, D.C. area enter one of the most important diplomatic buildings in the world to simulate real-world si...
    SOURCE: PRWeb 2 weeks ago
  13. The [Haqqanis] should not be given carte blanche to do whatever they want while State Department officials hold out false hope that they can cut a deal with the devil
    SOURCE: Washington Examiner 2 weeks ago
  14. When I worked at the State Department, some of America's best European allies found it increasingly difficult to assist us in counterterrorism because they feared becoming complicit in a program their governments abhorred. This was not a hypothetical concern.
    SOURCE: American Civil Liberties Union 2 weeks ago
  15. sources in touch with the State Department tell us there's a push to sort out a deal for Chen and his family before the official talks between the U.S. and China kick off
    SOURCE: NPR 2 weeks ago
  16. Well, why don’t you have a dinner for him at the State Department?
    SOURCE: US State Dept. - Travel Bureau 3 weeks ago
  17. Well, we’ve already got this other dinner at the State Department, and I’m not about to ask them to move.
    SOURCE: US State Dept. - Travel Bureau 3 weeks ago
  18. So we have the CIA, the FBI, State Department and Department of Defense and the solution in Washington was, 'Let's create another department,' ... That's what's wrong with Washington.
    SOURCE: Richmond Times-Dispatch 3 weeks ago
  19. We have the CIA, the FBI, the State Department, the Department of Defense. The solution in Washington was: let's create another department ... The answer was always a larger bureaucracy rather than fixing the problem where it is.
    SOURCE: Washington Examiner 3 weeks ago
  20. But to threaten to harm bystanders? That is unprecedented. It is deeply disturbing that the State Department would go to such extremes. Threatening to provoke racial hatred against American citizens should have been beyond the pale.
    SOURCE: Jerusalem Post 3 weeks ago
  21. The State Department was not acting in opposition to Truman. On the contrary, it was implementing presidential policy
    SOURCE: Jerusalem Post 3 weeks ago
  22. As for the veiled or open threats from the State Department, I was sure they did not have to be taken seriously ... With a presidential election due that November, it was out of the question that the Truman administration would attempt to harass us – with the vast and bitter repercussions that this woul...
    SOURCE: Jerusalem Post 3 weeks ago
  23. So we have the CIA, the FBI, State Department and Department of Defense and the solution in Washington was, ‘let’s create another department,’ ... That’s what’s wrong with Washington.
    SOURCE: Richmond Times-Dispatch 3 weeks ago
  24. As soon as there’s an actual route, then TransCanada is going to be able to apply to the State Department
    – Brian Schweitzer SOURCE: Bloomberg.com 3 weeks ago
  25. The State Department also determines which countries are eligible to participate and approves all sales to foreign governments
    SOURCE: DVIDS 3 weeks ago
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