7 sentences with “affair”

But, on Henry's return home, Clara asked him for a report on the union affair.

Most Americans believed that the war was a European affair that should not involve American troops.

While the mainstream Enlightenment was definitely an elite affair conducted in public, there were other elements to it.

Henry VIII decided that he needed a new wife and another chance at a male heir, so he began an affair with Anne Boleyn, a young noblewoman at his court.

The whole affair was paid for by Cosimo out of his personal fortune - he even paid the travel expenses of visiting dignitaries from as far afield as India and Ethiopia.

The Dreyfus affair, in which a French Jewish army officer was falsely accused of treason, became a kind of prediction of civil war thanks to the enormous amount of press on both sides of the scandal.

In the end, the "Dreyfus affair" culminated in the exoneration and release of Dreyfus, but not before anti-Semitism had risen to one of the defining characteristics of right-wing illiberal and authoritarian politics in France.