chinmen

Example Sentences

• "The best educated American guess is that Chiang has 100,000 effective combat soldiers. Generally these troops could hold Formosa and even Hainan. Telling of his visit to Chinmen Island off Amoy only two weeks after the Communists landed 10,000 troops there, he said: "Although the Communists landed behind as well as in front of the Nationalists, the defenders fought back and with reinforcements, destroyed the Communist invaders. They killed 3,000 and captured 6,000-plus enough equipment to arm in full all the Nationalist troops on Chinmen, only 60 per cent of whom had firearms, and two divisions on Formosa as well.""
• "She had been troubled with demons for some years and they really began to bother her when her son wrote from the off-shore island of Chinmen of his fear from the noise of exploding shells from Communist China."
• "At the sunset of May 28, the Chinmen County Council of Taiwan Province passed a joint resolution adopted by the county government and "congress" that a civil channel would be opened to accept the donations from the Chinese motherland the materials for the prevention and protection against atypical pneumonia."
• "It was as if she could see all the way across the Taiwan Straits to Chinmen harbour on the opposite shore, where the mainland fishing boats sometimes took shelter from the typhoons."
• "Aside from the Schwietzer teachers -- most of whom will remain in Taiwan teaching at local elementary schools in Chinmen Hualien and Nantou counties until next year -- classes are taught by local people and foreigners alike."
• "In 2013, we knew that two types, one from Taiwan and the other from Amoi, had been found in NMHN and we could use them for this study. Thus, suddenly we could see syntypes of three localities indicated by FAIRMAIRE (1900). Additionally, Dr. CHOU (2004) rediscovered this species at Chinmen Is. of Fujian Province and we examined a pair from him.[...]Additionally, the examples of Chinmen Is. illustrated by W. CHOU (2004) included both sexes of which the male showed conspicuous difference from male syntypes whilst the female indicated same characteristics as that of Xiamen. This time we could examine a pair example from Chinmen Is. got by W. CHOU in 2005 and confirmed the above-mentioned facts. Thus we concluded that the specimens from Xiamen and Chinmen Is. should be regarded as a different taxon from that of Taiwan and Fuzhou, and we name this taxon as choui subsp. nov. and give the description below."