Sentence examples for lengthy overseas from inspiring English sources

Talented young officers were abandoning their careers because their lengthy overseas deployments made it difficult to hold on to a marriage or start a family.

It did not help Mrs. Megawati's stature when a prominent promoter of democracy in Indonesia, Wimar Witoelar, criticized her for "conspicuous consumption" and "excursions without explanation," a reference to lengthy overseas presidential trips.

Her first lengthy overseas job was in the US, where she worked as a reporter for a news agency and later as a staff reporter for US News and World Report in Washington.

Despite the agency's claim that all live horses shipped to Japan are transported humanely, there have been past incidents of horse injuries and death during these lengthy, overseas flights.

Similarly, 8 service providers in Kenya suggested that the shelf life of any LAI should be at least 3 years, with some specifying that this would enable the product to withstand the lengthy overseas procurement and local distribution processes.

He has already delivered his last State of the Union address, staged his last state dinner and conducted his last lengthy trip overseas.

Such folk will be more pleased, though, by his pessimism about whether modern America has the will to make imperial interventions work, given the clash between its inward-looking democratic process and the high cost, in both money and casualties, of lengthy interventions overseas.

Boy Overboard By Morris Gleitzman (Puffin Children's Books) Jamal and sister Bibi want to lead Australia to victory in the World Cup, but that entails a journey from their homeland, Afghanistan where their family has upset the authorities, and a lengthy voyage overseas.

This week King Abdullah, who is 86, returned to the country after lengthy medical treatment overseas.

But they do not have unlimited financial resources and therefore cannot always pursue lengthy inquiries, especially overseas.

The past seven years have been especially hard on those serving in the National Guard and other reserve forces, who too often have had to shortchange their families, finances and careers to accommodate lengthy and repeated overseas tours.