Example sentences for: transnational

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

  • From terrorism to global disease or environmental degradation, the challenges have become transnational rather than international.

  • The newest entrant in this contest of symbols is Thomas L. Friedman, the foreign affairs columnist of the New York Times , who offers a somewhat sunnier pair in his new book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree . The Lexus, a luxury car made mostly by robots in a state-of-the-art Japanese factory, stands for progress--"all the anonymous, transnational, homogenizing, standardizing market forces and technologies that make up today's globalizing economic system," as he puts it.

  • That is, it should be an authoritative reference base on the transnational terrorist organizations: their people, goals, strategies, capabilities, networks of contacts and support, the context in which they operate, and their characteristic habits across the life cycle of operations-recruitment, reconnaissance, target selection, logistics, and travel.

  • Traditional issues-foreign policy, defense, intelligence-continued to be handled by committees whose structure remained largely unaltered, while issues such as transnational terrorism fell between the cracks.

  • When asked about how this traditional structure would adapt to the challenge of managing a transnational case, one that hopped from place to place as this one did, the deputy director argued that all involved were responsible for making it work.


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