(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joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.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.
Thong
Definition:
(n.) A strap of leather; especially, one used for fastening anything.
Example Sentences:
(1) The guy walking [by me] had on nothing more than a thong and a pair of platform snakeskin boots.
(2) Fifty percent of Pong Nam Ron children had antiHAV antibodies at the age of 8-9 years and at the age of 12-13 years of Bo Thong children.
(3) Forty-two percent of the population at Pong Nam Ron and fifteen percent at Bo Thong went to drug-stores or groceries when they developed minor illness, while 85.2% of the subjects interviewed at Bo Thong went to the local health center.
(4) Certainly, Gagaʼs thong flash seemed mild in comparison to Cyrusʼ over the top follow up act, but it was still a totally gratuitous bit of self exploitation in an otherwise interesting and well put together number.
(5) As he ambles into the small interview room at Munich’s Säbener Strasse in a plain black T-shirt and trainers, Alaba is unassuming to the point of being shy, a little at odds with his reputation as a social-media prankster – his oeuvre contains a series of shots of the midfielder Franck Ribéry dozing and a nearly-nude double-selfie with his former team-mate Mitchell Weiser, in thongs – and as a typically Viennese lausbub (rascal) who once told the club’s former president Uli Hoeness that he had to “think about” an allegation by a concerned member of the public that he was painting the town red with Ribéry in Munich.
(6) The two layers of subunits are held together largely by the apolar COOH terminus, a helical thong, which inserts into a hydrophobic pocket formed by two neighboring subunits on the opposite ring.
(7) Rihanna has treated her fans to Instagrammed selfies of her enjoying the view at a strip club, of her buttocks barely concealed by a tiny denim thong and of her posing with two oversize cannabis joints while in Amsterdam.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest When Minaj released the artwork for her Anaconda single – a striking image of a squatting Minaj in a hot pink thong, squatting on the floor with her ample backside facing the camera – she did so with a message.
(9) The girls favour bikinis the size of Dairylea triangles with thongs that could cut their own slice of cheese, while boys see no shame in skimpy white briefs that look like they were bought from Versace Junior.
(10) splashed across the chest – and has outraged people for selling thongs for children with "wink wink" printed on the front, and last year for selling "push-up" (its description) bikini tops for girls as young as seven .
(11) One of the Sábado Gigante’s best-known segments, for instance, is Miss Colita (roughly translated, it means Miss Ass); a pageant in which women parade around the stage in thongs while Don Francisco comments and audience members vote for their favorite buttocks.
(12) While 10 years ago the stockings, the tincy thongs, the half-cup bras were only available here, in the past decade Agent Provocateur's kink has gone mainstream – this year high-street chain Peacocks reports sales of "sexy lingerie" increasing by 73% on last year.
(13) A cross-sectional descriptive survey was conducted among 253 local inhabitants during the beginning of the transmission season in July 1989 at Bo Thong District, Chonburi Province, Eastern Thailand where malaria transmission was likely to be moderately high.
(14) She shook everyone's hand ("That's new," remarked the lighting producer, sotto voce), gave me a selfie and then said to her people, "Do we have a thong?"
(15) Plus: moving on Argentina: Playboy model Cinthia Fernández – ex-partner of San Lorenzo's Jonathan Ferrari, Racing's Iván Pillud and self-styled "Queen of Thongs" – says having twins with Huracán's Matías Defederico will change her.
(16) Jackie St Clair was dressed in a tiny thong and high heels, Sinitta undid her top, and Cowell smoked and watched as the two women wrapped themselves around him and fondled his crotch.
(17) A high resonance frequence in thong-minded trained was not observed, only one time a normal, 63 times a reduced arterial resonance frequence.
(18) Ninety-four percent of the subjects interviewed at Bo Thong and eighty-seven percent at Pong Nam Ron gave a history of having used ya-chud in the past.
(19) Ryan Shapiro, CEO of JPay, drawn by prisoner Thong Vahn Louangrath.
(20) Like the original one-step Hypaque-Ficoll procedure (Ferrante and Thong, 1978), a single centrifugation at 500 X g for 30 min resulted in the formation of two distinct leukocyte fractions.