How to Use Monroe Doctrine in a Sentence

Monroe Doctrine

noun
  • The Monroe Doctrine meets the Donald.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Citing the Monroe Doctrine is silly.
    — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Who was the main force behind the Monroe Doctrine as Secretary of State.
    — Melissa Melvin-Rodriguez, Charlotte Observer, 3 Mar. 2026
  • In East Asia, China will likely move to enforce its own version of the Monroe Doctrine.
    — Jennifer Lind, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2025
  • And after World War II, the Monroe Doctrine was barely mentioned.
    — Mo Rocca, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2026
  • All the way back to 1823, James Monroe established the Monroe Doctrine.
    — Mariam Khan, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • That secretary of war was James Monroe, who would eventually go on to formulate what became known as the Monroe Doctrine.
    — Max Saltman, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Wilson's policies may be the better analogy to Trump's own interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine.
    — Scott Neuman, NPR, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The Monroe Doctrine is the belief that the Western Hemisphere falls within the United States' exclusive sphere of influence.
    — Eyder Peralta, NPR, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Cut to 1904, and President Teddy Roosevelt brandishing his big stick, proclaiming his own corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
    — Mo Rocca, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The Monroe Doctrine was basically a justification by the United States to exercise force in Latin America.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Trump appears interested in shifting back to a Monroe Doctrine-era stance, as well as lessening global importance of countries like Russia, China and Iran, the analyst said.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 5 Jan. 2026
  • President Fillmore also 2aggressively held to the Monroe Doctrine, and prevented European powers from annexing Hawaii.
    — New York Times, 11 June 2026
  • The first line of effort contains admiring reflections on the Monroe Doctrine and its Roosevelt Corollary without being burdened by an understanding of the historical context of either.
    — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
  • This practice was often justified by the Roosevelt Corollary, President Theodore Roosevelt’s addition to the Monroe Doctrine.
    — Tony Wood, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2026
  • In it, Roosevelt built on the Monroe Doctrine, which was formulated originally by President James Monroe to warn European powers away from interfering in the region.
    — Scott Neuman, NPR, 2 Jan. 2026
  • The dispute over Greenland is ultimately a North American dispute, and its logic is rooted firmly in the Monroe Doctrine, which has been guiding American policy off and on since 1823.
    — Barry Scott Zellen, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The surprising history of the Monroe Doctrine In 1823, President James Monroe called for European powers to stay out of the Americas.
    — David Morgan, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • In fact, eight decades later, President Theodore Roosevelt reimagined the Monroe Doctrine as a more muscular policy — in part as a response to Britain, Germany and Italy's naval blockade of Venezuelan ports over that country's failure to pay on foreign debts.
    — Scott Neuman, NPR, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Trump makes case using Monroe Doctrine The president has reaffirmed and expanded his policy of a modern version of the Monroe Doctrine declared in 1823, the notion that views America as the dominant leader in the Western Hemisphere.
    — Michelle Stoddart, ABC News, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Advertisement President Theodore Roosevelt, not long thereafter, introduced what would later be known as the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine after European creditors of a number of Latin American countries threatened to use armed intervention to collect debts.
    — Nandika Chatterjee, Time, 7 Jan. 2026
  • When the United States joined NATO in 1949, American policymakers pointed to the Rio Pact as a precedent and drew analogies between the alliance’s founding document, the North Atlantic Treaty, and the Monroe Doctrine.
    — Jennifer Kavanagh, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The Monroe Doctrine was welcomed by independence leaders in South America, including Simón Bolívar, who successfully led the liberation of modern-day Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bolivia from the Spanish Empire.
    — Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
  • An expansion of the Panama precedent Even during the Cold War, the Monroe Doctrine could be logically invoked to keep the Soviets out of the hemisphere – whether in Guatemala in 1954, Cuba in 1961, the Dominican Republic in 1965 or Grenada in 1983.
    — Alan McPherson, The Conversation, 2 Nov. 2025

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