"Even if a method works overseas, the soil in Japan is different, for example," said Hidehiko Nishiyama, deputy director at the environment ministry, who is in charge of the Fukushima cleanup.
Britain has criticised Argentina for broadcasting a television advertisement referring to the Falkland Islands as "Argentinian soil", accusing it of staging provocative and insensitive stunts to garner support for its claim to the overseas territory.
Status: British overseas territory.
Rather, the neoconservative phalanx is looking to the aftermath of another terrorist attack by al-Qaida or similar groups on US soil, interests overseas or troops and officials posted overseas.
They said intelligence warnings they received throughout 2001 suggested that Al Qaeda was poised to strike overseas, not on American soil, according to accounts of commission and administration officials.
Mr. Bush and other senior officials have been careful never to call explicitly on Israel to be cautious in defending itself against violent attacks on its soil or overseas.
Wittingly or unwittingly, are we now being led to think the unthinkable, that it might be O.K. to start a war with a country that has not presented any direct threat to us either on our own soil or overseas?
The Sept. 11 attacks, though carried out on American soil, were hatched overseas, which is the C.I.A.'s turf.
The growth of unicorns worldwide has made the sight of overseas companies hiring on U.S. soil fairly common, particularly Indian companies targeting potential returnees home.
The Frieze art fair is set to plant the flag of British culture and commerce on Manhattan soil in its first overseas expansion of the brand.
