Sentence examples for from mainlanders from inspiring English sources

A fresh supply of old beaters is always available from mainlanders eager to sell their castoffs.

Demand from mainlanders has pushed up property prices to increasingly unaffordable levels for many Macanese, exacerbating inequality and stoking discontent.

In 1993, under pressure from mainlanders demanding an equal say, the union parliament passed a law to give the mainland and Zanzibar identical forms of autonomy.

Philippe Léopold-Metzger, who runs Piaget, a Swiss watch and jewellery brand, says he regards the firm's outlets in China itself more as showcases than profit-earners: half of his global business comes from mainlanders, but they mostly buy while on foreign trips.That said, there are still plenty of opportunities to expand sales inside China.

Tasmania, 150 miles off the south coast of Australia and roughly the size of West Virginia, has historically gotten as bad a rap from mainlanders as West Virginia does in the United States: for years it was considered a hillbilly backwater, not worth the 12-hour ferry crossing of the Bass Strait required to reach the island.

However, the distinctive tool forms and flaking techniques that characterized these coastal southern California artifacts distinguished the islanders from Clovis mainlanders.

Mr. Soong enjoyed strong support from the mainlanders, who with their offspring make up less than 15percentt of Taiwan's population of 22 million.

From calling mainlanders -- an average of 100,000 of them tour the city every day -- "locusts" to advocating for a "city state," the people of Hong Kong seem to be upping the tension with China.

China, which does not have a legal gambling system, finds it convenient to have Macao as a close-by outlet for Mainlanders, who must obtain a permit to visit from the Mainland authorities.

That historic antagonism had been easing with the passage of time and with the welcome transformation of the Nationalist Party from its mainlander roots into a modern democratic party with broad islandwide appeal.

For mainland China, too, is becoming restless.Party leaders are doing their best to prevent mainlanders from finding out about the events in Hong Kong (see article).