(n.) A mercantile establishment or factory for foreign trade in China, as formerly at Canton; a succession of offices connected by a common passage and used for business or storage.
(v. t. & i.) To hang.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
(2) 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joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
(3) A variation of a procedure for localized mutagenesis (Hong and Ames, 1971) was employed to generate conditional lethal mutants in phosphatidylserine decarboxylase.
(4) The HKSAR government will continue to follow up on the matter so as to protect the legal rights of the people of Hong Kong."
(5) Diplomatic posts also bypassed the media and took the message directly to the public; for example, the Hong Kong consulate sent DVDs of a pro-biotech presentation to every high school.
(6) Comparison of these hybrid viruses with the parent A(2) strains provided evidence that all the cross-reactivity of the Hong Kong strain with previous A(2) viruses is explicable on the basis of its similar neuraminidase component.
(7) The Hong Kong antibody titres in this group showed no correlation with the titres of simultaneously circulating classical A2 antibody.
(8) Many Hong Kong residents fear that Beijing – which governs the region under the principle of "one country, two systems" – has been encroaching on their civil liberties, free press and independent judiciary.
(9) When she filmed Snowden, Glenn Greenwald and myself in Hong Kong, it never occurred to me she had something as ambitious as CitizenFour in mind.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Snowden revealed going to Hong Kong was not part of a masterplan, adding the state department stranded him in Russia.
(11) He avoided everyone he didn't want to see when he was in Hong Kong, the first place he escaped to, and for several weeks he remained beyond the reach of the world's media, and doubtless a small army of spies, while holed up in a hotel room in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport.
(12) It’s just huge – and very exciting.” He says having a son who lived in Hong Kong has helped him to understand the market better, and that building up strong relationships had been key.
(13) If the deal is completed without a hitch the winger will join his team-mates in Hong Kong, where André Villas-Boas's side will compete in the Asia Trophy.
(14) Chief executive Louis Gallois said Beijing's refusal to allow Hong Kong Airlines to complete a $4bn order for the A380 super-jumbos amounted to "retaliation measures" over the policy, which came into force at the beginning of the year.
(15) While real-life Hong Kong residents took to the streets in their tens of thousands to march for democracy, the Transformers film shows a local leader calling on central government to save the day when the territory faces an invasion by the mutant robots.
(16) Hutchison Whampoa, the Hong Kong conglomerate that owns Three, agreed in March 2015 to buy O2 from Telefónica of Spain.
(17) Yet calls for an independent Hong Kong are made from anger rather than reason.
(18) The party’s first challenge comes on 4 September when Law plans to stand as a candidate in elections for Hong Kong’s legislative council.
(19) The clinical findings relating to 11 patients in Hong Kong (HK) and to 43 patients described elsewhere, all with Streptococcus zooepidemicus septicaemia, are reviewed.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A pro-democracy demonstrator pours water over a man’s face after police fired teargas at protesters in Hong Kong.
Rong
Definition:
() imp. & p. p. of Ring.
(n.) Rung (of a ladder).
Example Sentences:
(1) This survey of China's ethereal paintings is fleshed out by The Chinese Art Book, published by Phaidon on 14 October, a gorgeously laid out overview in which classics like Chen Rong's Nine Dragons, painted in 1244, - the original is in the V&A show - are juxtaposed with contemporary artists from heroic Ai Weiwei to the fireworks of Cai Guo-Qiang.
(2) Ren-shen-yang-rong-tang (Japanese name: Ninjin-yoei-to, NYT) is a traditional Chinese herbal medicine.
(3) and oral administration of a traditional herbal medicine, ren-shen-yang-rong-tang (Japanese name: ninjin-youei-to, NYT), were investigated.
(4) Zhou Rong, climate and energy campaigner at Greenpeace, said: "This is really the worst on record not only from the official data but also from the monitoring data from the US embassy [which began measurements four years ago] – some areas in Hebei province are even worst than Beijing."
(5) Ren-shen-yang-rong-tang (Japanese name: Ninjin-youei-to, NIN), a traditional Chinese medicine, is a drug made of spray-dried powder of hot water extract obtained from twelve species of medical plants.
(6) The pyrrolizidine alkaloid composition of three Chinese herbs, "pei lan", "cheng gan cao" and "zi xiao rong," identified respectively as Eupatorium cannabinum, Eupatorium japonicum (Compositae) and Crotalaria assamica (Leguminosae), were studied by fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry and gas chromatography-electron impact mass spectrometry.
(7) There is more to do to get a balanced st rong economy, Balls says.
(8) Julie Johnston served one into the box and Lloyd rose up over the shoulders of forward Zhao Rong in the box to get a perfectly placed head on it, beating goalkeeper Wang Fei.
(9) We intend to hike to the summit, and the remains of the three-tiered temple of Prasat Rong Chen that marks the site where the Khmer Empire was founded in AD 802, when a Brahmin priest declared Jayavarman II universal monarch – just two years after Charlemagne was made Holy Roman Emperor – will be nothing less than dramatic.
(10) Our numerical results are in good agreement with previously reported experimental data of Rong and Carr (Microvascular Research, Vol.
(11) Updated at 6.28pm BST 6.27pm BST 52 min: "45th-minute commenter and Rhyming-Slang-in-Waiting, Peter McMurry, couldn't be more Rong about Wright," says Mac Millings.
(12) A Kampo medicine, Ren-Shen-Yang-Rong-Tang was used in the management of 134 patients and 98 patients returned to work or school.