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Meanings of affairs in English

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assumptes personals

Matters of personal concern.

        assumptes personals
        Usage of affairs in English
        1
        The control of affairs was in the hands of the timid Whigs.
        The Life of Stephen A. Douglas
        2
        The household affairs are in a wretched condition; everything is in disorder.
        The Goose Man
        3
        They certainly do not put Italian public affairs in a good light.
        The Irish Times
        4
        The document also shows how competing consumer products companies arrange their affairs.
        Reuters
        5
        The Indian affairs having been satisfactorily adiusted, the convention, after considerable debate.
        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
        6
        He interested himself in the affairs and in the people of Redding.
        Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910
        7
        This said, Bots' minister of home affairs Edwin Batshu refuses to budge.
        The South African
        8
        And I am quite, quite in love with this state of affairs.
        Wired
        9
        Launching a process to return some existing justice and home affairs powers.
        The Guardian
        10
        My personal affairs also in a deep crisis, at the breaking point.
        Conquest of the Useless
        11
        I'm very disappointed in the current state of affairs in Northern Ireland.
        The Guardian
        12
        Nor did experience in affairs give him an education in that particular.
        Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1
        13
        McLaughlin, Andrew, director, public policy and government affairs for Google; January 2009.
        Start-up nation: the story of israel's economic miracle
        14
        Vaniman, in that crisis in his affairs, was not affected by squeamishness.
        When Egypt Went Broke: A Novel
        15
        Alas, that happy state of affairs came to an end within months.
        The Irish Times
        16
        In short, the natural state of affairs is something rather than nothing.
        The portable atheist: essential readings for the nonbeliever
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