Example sentences for: rieff

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

  • More amazing still is that Rieff couches his saber rattling in the language of dissent.

  • "Had the West been willing to unleash a ground war to secure its military, humanitarian and human-rights objectives," Rieff argued, "there would be more room for optimism."

  • Even though Kosovo was the West's attempt to compensate for the failures outlined in Slaughterhouse , as recently as last September Rieff opposed military action against Serbia in an op-ed, calling such intervention unwarranted because the sufferings of the Kosovars "pale in comparison" with the starvation of refugees in southern Sudan and Sierra Leone.

  • Before he became the intellectual conscience of the new world order, Rieff was an editor, reviewer, and travel writer.

  • Shortly after NATO's bombs stopped falling and Milosevic capitulated, Rieff assessed the lessons of Kosovo in a short Newsweek piece that made the case--from the safety of retrospect, naturally--for ground troops.


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