China has attracted huge outside investments because its 1.2 billion people make it potentially the world's largest market.

Mexico's oil industry, long a symbol of national sovereignty, is essentially closed to outside investment.

For most of the second half of the 20th century, there was little outside investment in Chester.

By encouraging its population to study engineering and computer science, Ireland is attracting outside investment.

This required substantial outside investment, but they had not been able to come to any agreement with interested parties.

He lost a lot of money to outside investments.

The nation's five-year plan, which continues until 1996, is based on $20 billion in outside investment.

With further outside investment the company continued until 2002, when it was finally dissolved.

"Without that outside investment, we would have been left behind."

New members add outside investment but draw interest on an inherited style.