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shanghai
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To force or trick (someone) into joining a ship which is lacking a full crew.
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The word "shanghai" is correct and usable in written English.
Typically, it is used to refer to a major port city in China. For example, "Shanghai has long been an important hub for international trade."
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The problem is particularly acute in New Jersey.
"They should have done this earlier, and it should be promoted all over the country, not just in Shanghai".
International events with a British theme helped raise the brand's profile, with London streets recreated in a Shanghai warehouse and James Corden, the Beckhams and the Queen's Grenadier Guards starring at a one-off fashion show in Los Angeles in April.
But after almost four months without news, they were finally told that she had been detained at Shanghai City Prison Hospital, though they have not been allowed to visit her yet.
When he appeared on the scene in the late 1990s he was instantly cast as a British engineering genius, the creator of weird, wonderful structures such as the UK pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo in 2010.
Shanghai was one of the most polyglot cities in the world, a vast metropolis governed by the British and French but otherwise an American zone of influence.
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"Soho could have a good chance of winning litigation," You Yunting, a Shanghai-based lawyer specialising in intellectual property, told German newspaper Der Spiegel.
The drug, which is based on a chemical found in red wine that is thought to mimic the life-prolonging effects of a very low-calorie diet, proved safe.Singapore Airlines said it still wanted to pursue an alliance with China Eastern Airlines after its proposal to buy a 24% stake in the Shanghai-based carrier was rejected by China Eastern's minority shareholders.
Eijkelboom used a similar technique in an earlier project, Paris-New York-Shanghai, an exhibition and a trio of books documenting everyday life in those cities that was widely perceived as being a deadpan comment on globalisation's effect on national identity.
Cahill played a full match for Chinese side Shanghai Shenhua in Sunday's 1-0 win over Tianjin Teda but Socceroos medical staff decided he should remain in China to treat the minor injury.
They looped on to the enormous screen a spine-chilling video of the same individuals climbing the under-construction Shanghai Tower in Beijing over a sea of early-morning fog, then filmed themselves watching the illegal screening from a drone.
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