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Example sentences for "overseas"

Lexicographically close words:
overrunning; overruns; overs; oversaw; oversea; oversee; overseeing; overseer; overseers; oversees
  1. In our own Welcome Home Parade, after the boys returned from France, the Legion decided to double the number of its mounted effectives: all the overseas officers should ride.

  2. All the overseas officers were instantly on their feet.

  3. France will keep the privilege of monetary emission in its overseas territories under the terms established by its national laws, and will be solely entitled to determine the parity of the CFP franc.

  4. However, in the event that this proves impossible, the Conference agrees that the Member State concerned may act separately in the interests of the said overseas countries and territories, without this affecting the Community's interests.

  5. Tannenbaum while stationed at Bordeaux was also, by special arrangement, appointed as supervisor of the Jewish Welfare Board for that area; and Voorsanger was mustered out of service to become executive director of their overseas work.

  6. Captain Gorfinkle organized an overseas branch of the New England Y.

  7. The morale of the overseas forces described a slow downward curve from the high point at the armistice until the news that the particular unit was going home, when it took an immediate upward bound.

  8. The role played by Jews in the army and navy of the United States and the Jewish contribution to the morale of the forces overseas deserve preservation, both as a reminder to ourselves and to the nation.

  9. Our Jewish boys came back from overseas with certain new knowledge of life and new valuation of their religion.

  10. In the army overseas we felt that prejudice was a thing of the past, that only in ignorance or malice could the old serpent lift its head again.

  11. Three of them, Rabbis Rothstein, Felshin and Barasch, soon after resigned their commissions and came overseas as representatives of the Jewish Welfare Board.

  12. Of course, a soldier naturally wears his overseas cap under any circumstances and it would have needed a special ruling to bring them off.

  13. Enelow for the University of Beaune, and Professor David Blondheim of Johns Hopkins, for a time executive director of the overseas work, for the Sorbonne in Paris.

  14. The last two left New York on the day following the armistice, so that on November eleventh, 1918, the Jews of America were represented overseas by just ten chaplains and two representatives of the Jewish Welfare Board, Rev.

  15. Had it not been for them, the overseas work of the Board would have been comparatively limited and many a Jewish boy would have been deprived of the comforts and solace of his religion.

  16. Mr. Goldhaar was made Overseas Field Director and put in charge of the field work.

  17. Voorsanger, then completing his second year overseas, to allow his division to return home without him, while he stayed on from April to September as Overseas Director of the J.

  18. Towards the end of March 1915 it became known for certain that Territorial Divisions would go overseas as complete units, though the exact order of movement was undecided.

  19. I hope that the States will cooperate with the Congress in adopting uniform standards in their voting laws that will make it possible for our citizens in the armed forces overseas to vote.

  20. We need to encourage investment overseas by avoiding unfair tax duplications, and to foster foreign trade by further simplification and improvement of our customs legislation.

  21. Third: Availing ourselves of facilities overseas for the economical production of manufactured articles which are needed for mutual defense and which are not seriously competitive with our own normal peacetime production.

  22. In this time she had transported a million and a half troops overseas and had the same number on this side, with the numbers always increasing.

  23. This inspiring statue, located near Grant's Tomb on Riverside Drive, New York City, overlooks the Hudson, where it bade Godspeed to all the American soldiers and sailors going overseas to deliver France from the Hun.

  24. In August, 1918, the overseas force alone was seven times as large as the entire United States army sixteen months before, at the declaration of war.

  25. Then there arose a school of statesmen, who were prepared to acquiesce with eagerness in any step on the part of the “overseas dominions” in the direction of independence.

  26. Though they are dwellers in a new country, many overseas Britons are extraordinarily conscious of their own and their national past.

  27. The girls have become efficient nurses and teachers and the boys successful business men, while two of the more recent inmates are doing their duty by their King and Country in the Canadian overseas contingent.

  28. Never again will she be able to feed her millions of people through overseas channels.

  29. It told them that never again would Britain's overseas commerce be placed in jeopardy from enemy attack in time of war; that is, if British enterprise would only rise to the opportunity afforded.

  30. Yes, a sudden and swift descent upon our overseas commerce.

  31. The names of the officers who went overseas with the battalion, noting the casualties which occurred among them, may be given here as some indication of the severe fighting through which the battalion passed.

  32. The State Department also is repositioning its domestic and overseas staff to better promote America's policies and interests and have more direct local and regional impact.

  33. Not only will we continue to support the efforts of our Muslim partners overseas to reject violent extremism, we will continue to engage with and strengthen the efforts of Muslims within the United States as well.

  34. CIA also has transformed to fulfill its role to provide overall direction for and coordination of overseas human intelligence operations of Intelligence Community elements.

  35. This Service continues to assist in making available material on good overseas practice and New Zealand achievement.

  36. Even the sharp and sudden thunder crash, heard from overseas in that fateful early August, the din of great nations rushing to arms, came only vaguely to Sylvia's happy Hill as to most of America.

  37. Meanwhile the war went on overseas and men began to shake their heads and prophesy that we would be in it soon.

  38. Per capita GDP is among the highest in the Third World, and substantial income from overseas investment supplements domestic production.

  39. The Ming government therefore, had organized an overseas flotilla of grain ships which brought grain from Central China directly to the front in Liao-tung and Manchuria.

  40. Trade, including overseas trade, developed greatly from now on.

  41. Down to the thirteenth century, most of this overseas trade was still in the hands of foreigners, mainly Indians.

  42. Their home was also close to the main centres of porcelain production in Kiangsi which was exported to overseas and to the urban centres.

  43. The four overseas companies had carried out the recent operations on the Somme (September-October 1916).

  44. Although independence was agreed upon for 1982, the policy was reversed and the islands are presently a British overseas territory.

  45. One of the effects of the falling-off in the overseas trade of Amsterdam was to transform this great commercial city into the central exchange of Europe.

  46. The occupation by the English of this island, the most important of all the Dutch overseas possessions, made the tale of their colonial losses complete.

  47. But it was soon perceived that there could be no friendship with independent Portugal, unless both the East and West India Companies withdrew from the territories they had occupied overseas entirely at the expense of the Portuguese.

  48. A scheme of packing shoes for overseas shipment in burlap bags instead of in boxes was worked out, and it resulted in saving a great deal of space on board ship.

  49. An accompanying illustration shows in operation one of the derrick trucks which we built for overseas use.

  50. The production of overseas caps for the American Expeditionary Forces was likewise an extensive undertaking.

  51. The daily ration of four-tenths of an ounce was given to every man overseas who desired it.

  52. There were no facilities of any degree of magnitude available to take care of our projected program for filling the high-explosive shell necessary for use by our overseas forces.

  53. This amount included both the home and overseas consumption.

  54. Within a comparatively short time, however, hard bread in cans for special reserve rations was being produced on a large scale, and the overseas requirements were filled.

  55. Vast quantities of large sizes of rope were requested for overseas to replace steel hoisting cables, which could not be secured in sufficient quantities.

  56. On the 4th of November Peter read in the Fredericton Harvester that recruiting had begun in the city of St. John for the 26th Infantry Battalion, a newly authorized unit for overseas service.

  57. I am a farmer and a trooper in the 8th Hussars, and I have come here to enlist for overseas with the new infantry battalion," he said.

  58. You are for the 26th Canadian Overseas Infantry Battalion.

  59. All appropriate departments and agencies will review and, if necessary amend, their incident-management procedures for overseas terrorist incidents involving critical infrastructure and facilities of U.

  60. Those procedures and systems that facilitate interagency, intergovernmental, and private information sharing will be expanded to allow our overseas agencies to have access and input, as necessary.

  61. To this end they had built a great fleet, and their sailors drank to "The Day" when the lordship of the ocean should be theirs, and the overseas dominion of Britain the spoils of their triumph.

  62. Before long they had persuaded the people that overseas trade, ships of war, and colonies were the three things that Germany must provide herself with, or be content to continue as a second-rate Power.


  63. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overseas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abroad; foreign; overseas


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    overseas department; overseas territory