"It is the fundamental backdrop of decelerating economic growth, and overseas influence," Mr. Hembre said.
Big noses, as foreigners were called, started to arrive in a big way only after the Opium Wars in 1840s, and Shanghai became the focus of overseas influence in building and interior design.
Alongside fellow Japanese designers Kansai Yamamoto and Hanae Mori, Kenzo infiltrated the Parisian fashion hierarchy steadily during the Seventies, beginning at the bottom of the food chain with a small independent boutique that he named Jungle Jap, in an ironic nod to his status as the proverbial étranger and to the overseas influences in most of his pieces.
Not quite as jazzy as New Orleans and not quite as western as Colorado, St . Louishas learned how to absorb the best the country has to offer as well as the usual overseas influences from France, Italy and Japan.
Pamela Maslen, a registered nurse and lactation consultant in Silver Spring, Maryland, said her work overseas influenced her decision to follow the recommendations when her first daughter was born nearly five years ago.
Malawian cultural practices and Malawian cuisine are rich in local, southern African, and overseas influences, as well as this, they have many peculiar forms of cuisine found no where else.
In the end, Disney decided that it could not let an overseas government influence its decision to distribute a movie in the United States.
If "The Avengers" hits as big in the United States as it's hitting overseas, its influence will doubtless be even more enduring, guaranteeing us superhero sequels and prequels and reboots and re-reboots as far as the eye (wrapped, of course, in 3-D glasses) can see.
The foreign policy of Taft and Knox, called "dollar diplomacy" by critics, sought to expand American political influence overseas by increasing American investments abroad, and to minimize the danger of European intervention in Central America or the Caribbean by persuading the nations in those regions to borrow from U.S. rather than European banks.
Projecting the UK's influence overseas and protecting us here at home.
US banks such as Citigroup may also be interested, since they are keen to expand their influence overseas.
