Sentence examples for off to shanghai from inspiring English sources

Ethan, as a leading scholar of road congestion, seems especially annoyed, and his solution is to get arrested, escape, and scoot off to Shanghai.

"Far, very far from the Barnum show that is the UMP, the international conference lecturer Nicolas Sarkozy flew off to Shanghai on Friday where he held a conference on the relations between the European Union and China.

LUST, CAUTION Ang Lee quits those darn cowboys and heads off to Shanghai, where he shot this erotic thriller about an ordinary young woman (Tang Wei) assigned to seduce and assassinate an enemy agent (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) during the Japanese occupation of China.

Some of you might wonder why I didn't stay out there for a bit longer - after all, it's less than a week now until I'll be heading off to Shanghai for the next race.

Undeterred, the agency shipped him off to Shanghai, where another outfit accepted him.

At concerts around world — he often darted off to Shanghai or South Africa for the weekend, his father said — Bernbaum was in charge of synchronizing his visual creations with the music.

Lawyers for TCW had previously pointed to a conference call Mr. Gundlach held several days after he was fired, in which he told investors in TCW's fixed-income funds that the firm was trying to "shanghai the funds" and said they were not legally bound to stay invested because of a "key man" provision that was set off with Mr. Gundlach's departure.

Kowtow, gung ho and to shanghai are now impeccably English words we use with no reference to China itself.