But the most spectacular recent arrivals are investors from the United Arab Emirates seeking a European bridgehead.
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Germany's Deutsche Bank AG, for one, is interested in broadening its U.S. bridgehead.
How can Israel trust that the land it vacates is not used, as Gaza has been, as a bridgehead for further struggle?
Mr Farage said that the party's rise to having 147 local councillors gave the party a "bridgehead" to show what it can do.
Hungary which already provides the alliance with a bridgehead to Bosnia has opened its air corridors but is nervous of Serb retaliation, possibly in the form of terrorism.
Suez Canal, Egypt, 1974: I was with the Second Egyptian Army, who, at the end of the Yom Kippur War managed to cross the Suez Canal and establish a bridgehead there.
Moreover, China's latest promise, plus the offer from Egypt to provide another 750 troops, has undercut Mr Bashir's assertion that any peacekeeping force would be a bridgehead for a hostile Western invasion.
EU, if not yet as a member, include its value as a diplomatic and commercial bridgehead into the energy-rich, newly independent countries of Central Asia, and as a cultural bridgehead into Islam.
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Such a Palestinian state, he says, would swiftly become, like Lebanon under Hizbullah and Gaza under Hamas, another bridgehead from which Iran and its proxies would pursue their ambition to extirpate the Jewish state.
According to the report, one of the brigades is tasked with invading three Arab villages along the Acre-Safed highway and using them as a bridgehead to spark an armed insurrection in Arab towns throughout the North.
They are a fraction of TCS's 215, 000-strong workforce but represent the bridgehead of its ambitions to go beyond being merely an outsourced back-office and coding shop and take on such consultancy giants as IBM, Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Accenture on their home turf.
Lib Dem leader and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has said his party has the "right priorities in tough times" while UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said his party is fielding a record number of candidates and would "establish a bridgehead" in county councils across England.
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