Sentence examples for duty abroad from inspiring English sources

He entered Foreign Ministry in 1930 & served several tours of duty abroad.

In '46, Mr. Wertenbaker was in N.Y. after a tour of duty abroad as a foreign correspondent for Time, Inc.

Children can also be granted leave when long-serving service personnel come home from tours of duty abroad, he added.

For the vast majority of the 49th's troops, the Bosnian mission has been their first extended duty abroad.

Opponents fear that with United States power a large target anywhere, Americans on duty abroad would be vulnerable to frivolous or ideologically motivated prosecutions.

But objections from the Pentagon have forced the administration to demand a guarantee that no American officer or civilian official on duty abroad will fall under its jurisdiction.

However weak he is at home, Mr Bush still has duties abroad.

I suddenly found myself having to perform the only secretary's duties abroad.

She said it was the State Department's responsibility to make sure that diplomats had the resources to carry out their duties abroad.

Instead, the scheme engages private military contractors to bulk up the capacity of African armies.In Sierra Leone ACOTA staff are training local soldiers for peacekeeping duties abroad.

He hit on a clause in the Criminal Justice Act 1948, which he believed meant that British officials could be prosecuted for not carrying out their duties abroad.