Sentence examples for stretch overseas from inspiring English sources

The big Y was proposed by Joe Lelyveld, the executive editor who brought me home in 1995 after a long stretch overseas.

In fact, France's army was already stretched overseas.

The focus of the indictment, which also charged 14 others, was a $200 million gambling operation that prosecutors said was linked to the Gambino crime family and that stretched over New York, New Jersey, Florida and New Hampshire and overseas to the Isle of Man and the island of Curaçao.

He hated to leave the next year, but he had stayed overseas in one stretch for as long as the State Department allowed.

It's exciting to see how far you can stretch your money on an overseas trip (the breakfast buffet doubles as a DIY sandwich-making station for lunch? Somebody pass the cling wrap!), but it pays to fork out a little extra cash on a classy hotel stay or restaurant a few times during your journey to keep the romance flowing.

Having her father overseas for long stretches has always been part of life for Mia, who tries to take the peripatetic lifestyle of a military family in stride.

The years of prolonged overseas deployments have stretched Guard units dangerously thin and left the Guard with barely 60percentt of the equipment it needs to carry out its basic missions.

Whilst Magnús appears to have intended for Sigurðr to rule over his recently-won overseas territories a region stretching from Orkney to Dublin —Muirchertach appears to have intended to exert influence into the Isles through his new son-in-law.

The report charged that "human intelligence" -- espionage by spies operating overseas -- was now stretched too thin by demands from policy makers to provide support for military operations and other emergencies in developing countries.

At the same time, overseas deployments have multiplied, stretching the services to the limit, and causing shortages of spare parts and equipment.

The cap was officially lifted 20 years ago, but Japan's defence budget is still under 1% of GDP and so is increasingly stretched by the SDF's new overseas duties.