Sentence examples for mainland border from inspiring English sources

Hong Kong announced on Jan . 21that agricultural officials had found a dead peregrine falcon near the mainland border that had been infected with the disease.

Hong Kong police said they are continuing to investigate Lee's case and had again asked police in Guangdong province, over the mainland border, to assist in arranging a meeting with Lee.

Experts have warned that rising sea levels could cause more problems for Lagos, which is composed of a mainland bordered by the Gulf of Guinea and several islands.

Their success diverted Spanish attention to the mainland in the 1520s, and Santo Domingo was soon superseded in commercial if not administrative significance by Havana Cuba and San Juan Puerto Ricoico), which provided staging posts for the fleets of galleons transporting cargoes of bullion from the "Spanish Main" (the mainland bordering the Caribbean) to the Iberian Peninsula.

The train home skirted within a few hundred yards of the mainland Chinese border.

HONG KONG — While there are plenty of academic institutions looking to enter China, the University of Macau is taking a more radical approach: It is abandoning its current campus and relocating entirely to Zhuhai, just across the mainland Chinese border.

Since 7 November, the mainland's border patrol has denied entry to at least nine Hong Kong residents with no criminal records, including student leaders who wanted to press their case for democratic elections, lawmaker Cyd Ho said at a public hearing on 3 December.

Pocket gophers of the genus Thomomys of Mexican mainland and bordering territory.

Because of the wind's direction, the worst of the storm was expected to be felt northeast of its eye, placing the Outer Banks and mainland areas bordering Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds in greatest danger, experts said.

The South Korean Army and Air Force plan a military drill on the mainland near the border between the two countries on Thursday, The Associated Press reported.

The power struggle is a potentially important one for Falun Gong, which drew millions of adherents in the late 1990's, because most of its followers are on the Chinese mainland, across the border from Hong Kong.