Sentence examples for formosa from inspiring English sources

Himalaya honeysuckle (Leycesteria formosa) has long leaves and produces drooping spikes of purple flowers with purple bracts.

Others kept as pets include the white-headed munia (L. maja) of Thailand to Java and the green munia, or green tiger finch (Amandava formosa), of India.

The related Sturt's desert pea (Swainsona formosa, formerly C. formosus), native to Australia, is often grafted onto C. puniceus rootstock, which is less susceptible to root rot.

This is the lesser-visited Eastern Algarve, and the unspoiled beaches of the Rio Formosa national park are only a 15-minute drive away.

Just up the Ohio from Ambridge, Shell is contemplating building a multi-billion-dollar "cracker" to turn the ethane that emerges with much of the gas from the Marcellus into ethylene, a feedstock for plastics.On the Gulf coast (another gas hub), Chevron Phillips, Dow Chemical, Formosa Plastics, Occidental Petroleum and Williams are all expanding existing chemical plants or building new ones.

In Formosa, that figure is $2m; the legislators there devour almost a tenth of the provincial budget.

On the day of the attack, December 8 by local time, Formosa-based Japanese bombers struck Clark and Iba airfields in the Philippines, destroying more than 50 percent of the U.S. Army's Far East aircraft; and, two days later, further raids destroyed not only more U.S. fighters but also Cavite Naval Yard, likewise in the Philippines.

Parks, reserves, and other protected areas covering more than 5 percent of the mainland have been declared from the far north of Portugal (Peneda-Gerês and Montesinho) to the extreme south (Formosa River), from the east (Malcata Mountains and Guadiana valley) to the west (Berlengas Islands, Sintra), and in several areas of natural beauty in between.

Chinese from Amoy brought tea cultivation to the island of Formosa Taiwann) in 1810.

But Zheng's son, Zheng Chenggong (also known as Koxinga), the famous pirate leader who controlled the island of Formosa Taiwann), refused to surrender to Qing forces.

The remaining Nationalists fled to the island of Formosa Taiwann), and the Communists officially proclaimed the People's Republic of China at Peking on Oct. 1, 1949.