Sentence examples for set in beijing from inspiring English sources

Phelps won by 0.63sec in a time only 0.27 outside the world record he set in Beijing.

Li has been working on a novella set in Beijing about a young woman and her family.

But Bolt pulled even with Powell and used his long strides to finish eight-hundredths of a second off the world record he set in Beijing.

Two years ago such scenes would have been set in Beijing, then suffering an "airpocalypse"—alarming levels of airborne pollution which focused public attention on China's dismal environmental record and forced the government to do more about it.

Friday's win did not match the Olympic record of 29:54.66 that Dibaba set in Beijing, but the victory became a stirring validation of her return to racing in the world's biggest events.

As the sun set in Beijing, Tapper emptied a paper cup of coffee and prepared to step out on a hotel terrace for a thirty-second spot on "Good Morning America".

Set in Beijing and Manhattan, sliding between the last US election and the moment when tanks rolled towards demonstrators in Tiananmen Square 24 years ago, it tackles the veracity of photojournalism, the attempted infiltration of China's market by western companies, the rise of air pollution and the suppression of news.

BEIJING — JIA ZHANGKE, China's most prominent art house director, had been preparing to make his first big-budget martial arts film, set in dynastic China, when reality intruded in the form of the Internet.

The current round of protests was set in motion when China's National People's Congress announced that candidates for Hong Kong's 2017 chief executive elections would have to be approved by a Beijing-controlled committee.

But Chinese officials focus these days on the Basic Law, a Beijing-drafted document that serves as Hong Kong's mini-constitution and gives broad powers to the Standing Committee in Beijing to set policy in Hong Kong by interpreting the territory's laws.

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