Towards the end of the 18th century, William Pitt the Younger estimated that four-fifths of British overseas income originated in the sugar trade.
Probably the best known of these southern dialects is Yue, particularly Cantonese, which is spoken in central and western Guangdong, Hong Kong, and in southern Guangxi a dialect area in which a large proportion of overseas Chinese originated.
Owen Paterson said it was unacceptable that consumers were mis-sold products, but that the problems originated overseas.
Debra Joy Weierman, an F.B.I. spokeswoman, said that did not necessarily suggest the government believed that some attacks had originated overseas but only that some leads suggested the need to gather information internationally.
Renee Xia, the international director of Chinese Human Rights Defenders, said that either the authorities lacked the evidence to prosecute him or they came to realize he played no role in the calls for a Chinese "Jasmine Revolution" that originated overseas.
In this sense, the word probably became little more than a placeholder for any four-legged animal that originated overseas, and was ultimately first used in print in 1598 by a Dutch merchant sailor to refer to a South American monkey, rather than an endearing African mongoose.
The industry giant Pfizer, for example, which has said that 88 percent of its $56 billion in income from 2004 through 2008 originated overseas, could be subject to the corporate 35 percent tax rate on at least some of its foreign profit in the future if the president's proposal goes through.
Several originated overseas.
Bratton believes the email threat may have been sent by a fan of the Showtime drama Homeland the threat "mirrors a lot of recent episodes"—and added that officials believe the emails originated overseas, and did not come from Jihadists.
In 2013, more than $2.6bn£1.6bnbn) of investment originated from overseas.
Because the two Comoroan species (Boophis sp. 1 and Blommersia sp. 4) likely originated by overseas dispersal (Vences et al., 2003), they were also excluded from subsequent calculations.
