Why should there be so many men staying abroad and so few women, given that work, study, travel and marriage in foreign countries attract both sexes more or less equally?
While the choice revolves around a number of issues (such as health care, abortion, gay marriage and foreign policy), the economy is the factor looming large in the minds of most voters.
But countries that want to clamp down on tax evasion, protect their national language, or deter such foreign customs as forced marriage, should do so through specific laws tailored to these ends, rather than relying on the symbolic power of citizenship.
Mr Lake said he also found himself at odds with the "dither and delay" in the Conservative Party nationally over the economy, Europe, the green belt, gay marriage, immigration and foreign aid.
The Foreign Secretary also dismissed reports that his marriage was in trouble, revealing that his wife Ffion has had multiple miscarriages, including one this summer.
There have been no findings that gay marriage interferes with interstate commerce, foreign affairs, or the military, Eskridge said.
His moderate stance on global warming, gay marriage, and his more anti-interventionist foreign policy views all make him a fairly unlikely GOP nominee.
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He defended his decision to exempt not only health care but also foreign aid from cuts, and announced his support for gay marriage and easier adoption rules.
The marriage of these technologies has already dramatically reduced U.S. imports of foreign oil and has made it realistically possible for North America to become completely independent from imported crude from overseas within the next decade.
Robin Cook, the foreign secretary, characterised this view in a speech in May celebrating chicken tikka massala (a harmonious marriage of subcontinental spices with very British gravy) as the national dish.
The UAE's Marriage Fund was set up six years ago to try to reverse the practise of Emirati men marrying foreign brides because they could not afford the exorbitant dowries expected of them.
But the marriage did produce the author, a legendary hellraiser in Moscow in the 1990s, and now a respectable foreign correspondent.
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