Sentence examples for mainland made from inspiring English sources

That year, she lost decisively to the Nationalist Party candidate, Ma Ying-jeou, whose historical ties to the mainland made him Beijing's preferred choice.

Choosing to pipe the petroleum resources to the mainland made Norway one of the world's wealthiest countries.

Long considered one of the pioneers of the modern panga, Mac Shroyer told VICE he started building the boats in the early 1970s, around the time when a new ferry service and the construction of a 1,000-mile-long 1,000-mile-long 1,000-mile-longinsula to thighwayland made it easier to ship loconnectinghtheish inland.

An under-construction access road dubbed "Freedom Road" would connect the man-made island to the mainland, making it cheaper and easier to build a water treatment plant for the community.

IN 1999 ANDY CHAN, a middle-aged Hong Kong businessman, set up a company in Shenzhen, just over the border on the Chinese mainland, making pretty sets of bath soap to fill American Christmas stockings.

But he seems uninterested in political subtleties in each society, especially on Taiwan, where the majority seeks to maintain the status quo until political evolution on the mainland makes the question of unification, or permanent separation, clearer and safer.

It was only a few years ago that the island was connected to a water pipeline from the mainland, making potable water widely accessible, and the main east-west road across the island was essentially unpaved until 1999.

The ships only stopped briefly before making for the mainland, making landfall somewhere near Xelha in the Maya province of Ekab.

But how?" Chinese leaders already face friction with Taiwan and its newly elected leader, Tsai Ing-wen, because she hasn't endorsed the notion that the democratic island and Communist mainland make up one China. .

The access road, dubbed Freedom Road by the community, will connect the residents to the mainland, making it easier for them to access health care, and cheaper to transport materials for a treatment plant.

The island is around 11 kilometres from the Cambodian coast, compared to around 19 for the Vietnamese mainland – making ownership of the island a source of contention between many Cambodians and Vietnamese.