La Caixa is looking abroad because room for expansion in its domestic market is limited.
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He had applied for British citizenship but missed an interview because he was abroad.
They are sent abroad because the Chinese firms they work for are expanding.
Pakistan's opposition says that she is being prevented from travelling abroad because the government believes any such visit would hurt the country's image.
Democrats, for their part, hint that bosses like Mr Romney, founder of a private-equity firm, willingly ship jobs abroad because they put profits before people.
Americans tend to seek adoptions abroad because of the perception that it's easier and that there are more children in need in other countries than in the United States.
The world's few water multinationals are looking abroad partly because their home markets are mature.
In essence, the SEC cannot go after the meat within the shell because the company resides abroad.
It will now be delivered in central London, rather than abroad, because "it best fitted with his schedule".
It is not a bail-out fund, he insists, because independent experts from abroad would make the investment decisions.
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Refiners are also getting around the renewable fuels mandate by shipping refined gasoline abroad, because exported gasoline is exempt from the ethanol requirement.
Overall this contributed to card fraud in the UK dropping by 4%, but fraud abroad soared because of the use of counterfeit cards.
Credit cards make inviting targets for thieves because even when canceled abroad, many still can be used for small purchases that don't require approval from central banking computers.
If a trade deal goes south, and a leader negotiated it in part because she thought it would raise her popularity abroad, but also in part because she thought it was a good idea, did she commit a punishable act?
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Juliet Tizzard, policy director of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), believes this was the right thing to do, but donor numbers have declined, and many people go abroad particularly because there is still anonymity, and many donors prefer it too.
Wei, now touring Europe, is a little different, Lee points out, because of his high stature abroad.
That is partly because they have more friends abroad (with whom they link via Facebook) and partly snobbishness.
Emerging markets tend to do best when rich-country interest rates are falling, because investors seek higher returns abroad.
Many Democrats complain that the government is missing out on billions of dollars because companies are stashing profits abroad and avoiding taxes.
In 2001, it was home to fewer than 1, 500 people born abroad - and because of the statistical quirk I've already mentioned, some of those were Brits born in Germany.
The agencies think that this bureaucratic burden is all the more unnecessary because many carers come from abroad, mainly the Commonwealth, and work for only a few weeks at a time.
Because of restrictions on investment abroad and a dearth of high-yielding instruments at home, such money as has accumulated has been invested mainly in the domestic banking system, where it earns a rate of return far too low to meet the government's pension promises.
It said that Zimbabwean embassies abroad face power cuts because they cannot pay their bills.
Critics of the tax code also say it puts U.S. companies at a disadvantage because it taxes their profits earned abroad.
British politicians, for instance, sometimes talk about scrapping their country's rule on resident non-domiciles because it allows wealthy people domiciled abroad, often in tax havens, to live in Britain tax-free.
This is going to be irksome to people who settle abroad and later expatriate because they get tired of paying accountants' and lawyers' fees to comply with U.S. as well as, say, U.K. law, says Davies.
Several countries run trade deficits that they can sustain only because they get aid and remittances from abroad.
The brightest are often tempted to stay abroad by local employers, because the competition for jobs has become global.
Alex Patel became a citizen in 1995, but he wasn't inspired to vote until now because of America's deteriorating image abroad.
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Small, open economies (such as Greece's or Ireland's) gain relatively little from looser fiscal policy, because a lot of the effect spills abroad.
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