Sentence examples for overseas region from inspiring English sources

Réunion is simultaneously administered as a French overseas region (région d'outre-mer) whose administrative functions are carried out by a regional council that coordinates social and economic development policies.

1Réunion is simultaneously administered as an overseas region (région d'outre-mer).

And despite a recent building flurry of luxury resorts, much of the seaside serenity and rugged landscapes on this overseas region of France remains unchanged.

Réunion, officially Department of Réunion, French Département d'Outre-Mer de la Réunion, island of the Mascarene Islands and a French overseas département and overseas region in the western Indian Ocean.

Even France, which maintains troops in French Guiana, an overseas region that shares a border in the Amazon with Brazil, and the United States occasionally send soldiers for training.

He went on to play for Martinique but because the island, an overseas region of France, is not a member of Fifa he remained eligible for French selection, which he earned in 2007, winning his only full cap as a 78th-minute substitute in a friendly victory over Austria.

Neotropical overseas regions of Europe have the same water policy objectives as the continental ones, but were overlooked during recent developments of bioassessment tools that fulfill the Water Framework Directive guidelines.

As of late Tuesday, those countries are Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Suriname, Samoa and Venezuela; the French overseas regions of French Guiana, Guadeloupe and Martinique; the island of Saint Martin; the Dominican Republic; the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

Mr. Tooley said that the Pacific Northwest region not only was out of step with the majority of the church, but also was part of a liberal Western jurisdiction that is losing members while the more conservative Southeastern and overseas regions are growing.

The SportsCenter app was very popular in some overseas regions, but not so much in the U.S. ESPN as a brand is a global badge, which provides an easy calling card.

Despite their inferiority at sea, both in numbers and experience, frigates of the French Navy were still required to leave port regularly on raiding missions against British commerce and to convoy supplies and reinforcements to overseas regions of the French Empire.