Example sentences for: poindexter

How can you use “poindexter” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Court of Appeals to throw out North's and Poindexter's convictions.

  • Once the North and Poindexter convictions were thrown out, there was little point in his trying to lock up other officials whose behavior, while far from exemplary, was neither venal nor as outrageous as that of the ringleaders going free.

  • Interviewed on videotape as a defense witness in the 1990 Poindexter trial, Reagan presented a sorry spectacle, unable to recall his own foreign policy beyond generalities.

  • A staffer for McFarlane and Poindexter, Marine Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, developed a scheme to trade U.S. arms for hostages and divert the proceeds to the Contras to get around U.S. law.

  • His national security adviser, Robert McFarlane, and McFarlane's deputy, Admiral John Poindexter, thought the hostage problem might be solved and the U.S. position in the Middle East improved if the United States quietly negotiated with Iran about exchanging hostages for modest quantities of arms.


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