(n.) China ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain. See Porcelain.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
(2) It is widely seen as a counter to China’s economic might in Asia, and the world’s second largest economy is notably absent from the list of signatories.
(3) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
(4) The biggest single source of air pollution is coal-fired power stations and China, with its large population and heavy reliance on coal power, provides $2.3tn of the annual subsidies.
(5) They argue that the US, the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases per capita (China recently surpassed us in sheer volume), needs to lead the fight to limit carbon emissions, rather continuing to block global treaties as it has done in the past.
(6) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
(7) Abe’s longstanding efforts toward those goals, which include the successful passage of a state secrets act and efforts to expand the scope of Japan’s military activities have already damaged relations with China.
(8) Since he was created, he has appeared at several robotic fairs across China, but spends most of his time in deep meditation on an office shelf in Longquan.
(9) It’s unclear too whether Google will continue to pay Mozilla to be the default browser in countries outside the US, Russia and China when the current deal ends in December.
(10) Her story is an incredible tale of triumph over tragedy: a tormented childhood during China's Cultural Revolution, detention and forced exile after exposing female infanticide – then glittering success as the head of a major US technology firm.
(11) It is this combination that explains the widespread fascination with how China's economic size or power compares to America's, and especially with the question of whether the challenger has now displaced the long-reigning champion.
(12) Doubts about Hinkley Point have deepened after a detailed report by HSBC’s energy analysts described eight key challenges to the project, which will be built by the state-backed French firm EDF and be part-financed by investment from China .
(13) China’s stock market rout Shanghai stocks Chinese shares have tumbled in recent weeks against the backdrop of a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy .
(14) She has more than made up for it since, building opera houses in China, art museums in America and car factories in Germany, all bearing her unmistakable influence in every detail.
(15) China's relations with the NTC were strained last week when it emerged Chinese arms firms had talked to Muammar Gaddafi's representatives about weapons sales .
(16) Japan's 2% growth this year would be boosted by a construction boom after the tsunami in 2011 , while China would expand by 8.2% in 2012 and 9.3% in 2013.
(17) Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, People's Liberation Army's chief of the general staff Gen Fang Fenghui also warned that the US must be objective about tensions between China and Vietnam or risk harming relations between Washington and Beijing.
(18) It is spending £68m this year to help meet this target, including further investment in its China start-up, expansion of its main UK warehouse in Barnsley, and new facilities in Berlin and Shanghai, and expansion of a warehouse in Ohio.
(19) In Tokyo, the US president warned China against forcibly pressing its maritime claims, following Beijing's unilateral declaration last autumn of an air exclusion zone over Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea.
(20) Speaking at The Carbon Show in London today, Philippe Chauvancy, director at climate exchange BlueNext, said that the announcement last week that it is to develop China's first standard for voluntary emission reduction projects alongside the government-backed China Beijing Environmental Exchange, could lay the foundations for a voluntary cap-and-trade scheme.
Pottery
Definition:
(n.) The vessels or ware made by potters; earthenware, glazed and baked.
(n.) The place where earthen vessels are made.
Example Sentences:
(1) These include 250 pieces of Greek and Roman pottery and sculpture, and 1,500 Greek and Ottoman gold, silver and bronze coins.
(2) Asked by a troll how long he planned to “live off” his Olympic success, and if he would ever do anything of consequence again, Rutherford suggested he might become a porn star or dabble in pottery instead.
(3) In a community of potters in Barbados where lead glazes traditionally have been used, a survey of 12 potters, 19 of their family members, and 24 controls revealed elevated blood lead levels in the potters, their family members, and the neighbours who used pottery for culinary purposes.
(4) Scores of archaeologists working in a waterlogged trench through the wettest summer and coldest winter in living memory have recovered more than 10,000 objects from Roman London , including writing tablets, amber, a well with ritual deposits of pewter, coins and cow skulls, thousands of pieces of pottery, a unique piece of padded and stitched leather – and the largest collection of lucky charms in the shape of phalluses ever found on a single site.
(5) Among the victims are the Carradale, Broadmore and Normanton brickworks, which have shut recently along with Jesse Shirley, a Stoke-on-Trent pottery firm, which had been trading for 191 years.
(6) In the rooms used for handicraft lessons numerous articles of pottery were on display.
(7) Another 20,000 work in small potteries or the industry's supply chain.
(8) They were commonly buried with an array of possessions including pottery cups.
(9) Sammy Duder, from Sammy Duder pottery-painting studio in Battersea, London, said the programme had “definitely sparked an interest” with the public.
(10) With McClaren running out of time to reassure Mike Ashley, the owner, that he remains the right man to save Newcastle from relegation, he knows a significant improvement in the Potteries and at home against Bournemouth on Saturday is imperative.
(11) The accompanying marketing blitzkrieg has given us postage stamps , Madame Tussauds exhibits , themed decor from Pottery Barn and fleets of new toys , including actual droids .
(12) They include the use of lead-glazed cooking pottery in Mexican-American households; folk medical use of lead in Hispanic, Arabic, South Asian, Chinese, and Hmong communities; as well as the use of lead as a cosmetic in the Near East, Southeast Asia, and South Asia.
(13) That’s why we focused our campaign on making Brexit work for the Potteries, with a practical plan to deliver safeguards for the local ceramic industry and a clear call for local funding to be protected by the government.
(14) Notification rates of all forms of tuberculosis have increased in all age-groups in the Potteries, in a stable population which includes only a small immigrant community.
(15) Although the incidence of silicosis in the Potteries has declined spectacularly in the past 20 years with the introduction of preventive measures, there still remains a generation of middle-aged and elderly potters with the disease who pose special problems for the anaesthetist and the thoracic surgeon.
(16) We were the right club at the right time.” All that remains now is for the player to resurrect his career in the Potteries, though Hughes does not believe he will have any difficulty.
(17) Coates can pass unrecognised through the streets of Stoke-on-Trent, where Bet365's success has made it the city's largest private sector employer, its unassuming offices a hi-tech hive of activity on the margins of an industrial landscape dominated by derelict pottery factories.
(18) In the small pottery town of Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, there's a mighty battle taking place to save the Great War memorial .
(19) The possible association between exposure to low levels of silica and lung cancer was investigated by following up pottery workers included in a survey conducted in 1970-71 of respiratory disease among such workers.
(20) event to coincide with the Great Pottery Throw Down, in an attempt to encourage “everyone across the UK to get creative with clay”.