internal affairs

Noun

Meaning

internal affairs (uncountable)

(US, law enforcement) A division of a law enforcement agency investigating incidents and plausible suspicions of lawbreaking and professional misconduct attributed to officers on the force.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

legislature jungle polity campaigning electioneering civics IAD IAB statecraft IA

Antonyms

foreign service foreign minister foreign policy international affairs Foreign Office

Examples

I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not. Paul Wolfowitz

Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal affairs. Vladimir Putin

I have been placed under surveillance, and I can't take a step without it being known to the Polish minister of internal affairs. Konstantin Rokossovsky

We don't need ‘masters' that dictate to other countries, let alone politicizing and turning the human rights issue into a tool, practicing double standards and interference in the internal affairs of other countries under the pretext of human rights. Xi Jinping

If there is any one principle dearer and more sacred than all others in free governments, it is that which asserts the exclusive right of a free people to form and adopt their own fundamental law, and to manage and regulate their own internal affairs and domestic institutions. Stephen Douglas

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs. Hillary Clinton

Close letter words and terms

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