Sentence examples for canton from inspiring English sources
noun
A division of a political unit.
Roosevelt's grandfather lived in Canton (now Guangzhou) as a merchant for many years and the Roosevelts felt this particularly strongly.As a young man, FDR had been influenced by Admiral Mahan and his school, who taught in terms richly dipped in racism and eugenic theory, that the Japanese were destined to be America's enemy and could never be assimilated.
China Southern wants to use this new service it calls the Canton Route (after Guangzhou's old name) to compete with the "Kangaroo Route" to London that Qantas and British Airways have long operated through Singapore.
"River of Smoke" takes the story, and some of the first book's characters, from Calcutta to the port-city of Canton (now called Guangzhou) on the Pearl River delta, then and now, China's emporium.The vast book has a Dickensian sweep of characters, high- and low-life intermingling.
China had a deep suspicion of all outside "barbarians"; it insisted that trade with the outside world be conducted only through Canton (modern-day Guangzhou) and only on its own, capricious terms.
Neel, a bankrupt Raja falsely accused of forgery (he was one of the Ibis convicts), finds himself in Canton (present-day Guangzhou) drawn to help the Chinese authorities against the English.
Police in Aargau canton say residents heard shots in Würenlingen, a town of about 4,500 people north-west of Zurich, late on Saturday night.
The government is now trying to soothe the fears of the German-speaking losers in the country's eastern heartland, such as the tiny half-canton of Appenzell Inner-Rhoden, where 68% of the voters (by head-count, a total of 4,486 people) said No. Switzerland's neutrality will not change, it repeated.
Despite its defeat in Tennessee it is likely to press on with efforts at a Mercedes plant in Vance, Alabama, and a Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi.
First, he has to manage Nissan's headlong expansion there: the firm stumbled last year, with quality problems in vehicles made by inexperienced workers at a new factory in Canton, Mississippi.
When the popular sense of direction is baffled, there is no conventional wisdom for futurologists to appropriate or contradict.Popcorn and prediction marketsThere are still some hold-outs prophesying at the planetary level: James Canton, for example, author of "Extreme Future".
No sooner had Alicia Silverstone become flavour of the month for her part in "Clueless --for whiClueless --ford $250,000--than Mark Clueless --foread of Sony's film division, offered her $7.5m to make three films.
