Sentence examples for wu from inspiring English sources
proper noun
Suzhou, a city in southern Jiangsu province in China, whence: A county of imperial and Republican China around Suzhou. A commandery of imperial China around Suzhou.
Its Chinese translation, wu liu, literally means "the flow of things".
Mr Wu the elder, who is 59, had his three sons before China imposed its one-child policy in the late 1970s.
But it remains uneasy about the age-old practice of keeping businesses under patriarchal control and handing them down through the male line.And it is just as uneasy about sex, although the visitor to the Wu showroom in Wenzhou, run by the 36-year-old eldest son, Wu Wei, might not believe it.
In the brutal era of Mao Zedong, the temple (which is over 700 years old) was destroyed and clan elders hid the Wu family archives from Red Guard fanatics.
Elder Brother Wu says that despite higher than average wages at the factory, about a third of job seekers withdraw their applications when they find out what they would be doing.
State-owned banks often turn up their noses at private businesses, and most of the companies approved for listing on China's stock exchanges are state-controlled.The Wu family empire is trying to adjust to the rapid evolution of China's sex-toy industry.
In fact, if memory serves, we took one listen to Nomi's deep, husky, androgynous tones, clocked the post-rap context, and described her as "Sade meets Wu-Tang Clan's RZA".
Cash-worship had been central to American hip-hop almost since its inception; consider the Wu-Tang Clan's 1993 hit "C.R.E.A.M".
The Wu-Tang Clan, fellow American rappers, listed the price of one of their CDs in euros rather than dollars on their official website.Today the euro has lost much of its glamour, gangsta or otherwise.
This failing can cost a business up to half of its potential income.Wild ride"Losing Their Grip"By Don Durfee, Yang Jian and Wu ChenThe image of a harrowing taxi ride through the Chinese countryside is apt to describe the findings of a survey carried out by CFO China more than half of respondents believed that growth wasn't under control at their companies.
Wu Hui and the youngest brother, Wu Xiao (who runs the retail business in Shanghai), already own 20 or so.
