Sentence examples for mainland development from inspiring English sources

"It's also the fact that bodies of water separate them from everything they want to escape on the mainland — development, traffic, stressed-out work lives, anonymity in urban and suburban communities, bad relationships.

The opposition Civic United Front is expected to win a majority in the Zanzibar House of Representatives and dent the governing party's majority on the mainland, developments that diplomats believe will hasten the island's drive for greater independence.

The region comprises both island and mainland community development blocks (CDBs), which are the lowest level of administrative units of a district in a rural region.

TAIPEI — Stock prices soared in Taiwan on Monday as investors welcomed Saturday's presidential election victory of Ma Ying-jeou, a Nationalist Party leader who has called for closer relations with mainland China — a development that could spur the island's lagging economy.

There's an argument to be made that new constraints being introduced by the government of mainland China on development activity — the ability of lenders to finance transactions out of concern that property prices are rising too rapidly in both residential and commercial sectors — has ultimately meant that large, established lenders in those markets have had to explore opportunities elsewhere.

Inventory is shrinking and on the mainland, some new development is taking place, such as Hamptons Hall.

His Democratic Progressive Party has long promoted the idea of a distinctive Taiwanese national identity, and its most militant members support outright independence, a development that mainland China says it would wage war to prevent.

Electrical lines linked Olkhon to the mainland in 2005 — a development no doubt welcomed by the island's 1,500 residents, but a blight on the island's rugged landscape nevertheless.

Mainland China's economic development is seriously polarized.

Teachers' low educational level has become the bottle-neck for preschool education development in Mainland China.

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