Mainland European armies seldom trained a significant longbow corps.

Mainland Portugal's literacy rate by the 1940s and early 1950s was low for North American and Western European standards at the time.

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Mainland European France, viewed from the NASA Shuttle Topography Radar Mission

In Mainland Europe, some scholars have suggested Glass-Steagall should be a model for any in-depth reform of bank regulation: notably in France where SFAF and World Pensions Council ( WPC ) banking experts have argued that " a new Glass-Steagall Act " should be viewed within the broader context of separation of powers in European Union law.

The European Marine Energy Centre is a Scottish Government-backed research facility that has installed a wave testing system at Billia Croo on the Orkney Mainland and a tidal power testing station on the island of Eday.

* For Portugal, during the 19th and 20th centuries period, Metrópole designated the European part of Portugal ( Mainland Portugal plus the Azores and Madeira ); the overseas provinces were called Ultramar (= overseas ).

Mainland Portugal is divided into five regions, which are classified as NUTS2 level regions by the European Union.

For the most part, other Lower Mainland residents rarely distinguish between the District and the City, referring to both collectively as " North Vancouver ".

The name Burrard Peninsula is rarely used in casual reference to the area among locals, in favour of " Lower Mainland ," or a specific community or city therein.

For the most part, other Lower Mainland residents rarely distinguish between the District and the City, referring to both collectively as " North Vancouver ".

This provision was of particular concern because Mainland China does not have a general legal mechanism for defining a banned organization or political dissidents.

Reports of sporadic persecution against such Christians in Mainland China have caused concern among outside observers.

Many people in Hong Kong consider themselves as " Hong Kongese " or " Hong Konger " instead of " Chinese " as they feel like if they tell people they're Chinese, people would think they are from mainland china, which, for many reasons, they do not like to be considered as " Mainland Chinese ".

By this time, well above 90 % of the islands ' inhabitants considered themselves Swedish, stationed military personnel excluded, in contrast to Mainland Finland, where less than 15 % were Swedish-speaking.

By 1850, Luanda was one of the greatest and most developed Portuguese cities in the vast Portuguese Empire outside Mainland Portugal, full of trading companies, exporting ( together with Benguela ) palm and peanut oil, wax, copal, timber, ivory, cotton, coffee, and cocoa, among many other products.

Following the abandonment of Legalism in China after the Qin Dynasty, Confucianism became the official state ideology of China, until it was replaced by the " Three Principles of the People " ideology with the establishment of the Republic of China, and then Maoist Communism after the ROC was replaced by the People's Republic of China in Mainland China.

Hong Kong is a favorable destination especially for international firms and firms from Mainland China to be listed in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange from Hong Kong's highly internationalized and modernized financial industry along with its capital market in Asia, its size, regulations and available financial tools are comparable to London and New York.

Permanent residents of Hong Kong with PRC nationality hold a different type of passport, called the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Passport, which is different from that for PRC citizens in Mainland China.

By 1850, Luanda was one of the greatest and most developed Portuguese cities in the vast Portuguese Empire outside Mainland Portugal, full of trading companies, exporting ( together with Benguela ) palm and peanut oil, wax, copal, timber, ivory, cotton, coffee, and cocoa, among many other products.

One of the mildest climates in Canada, the region has a mean annual temperature in the Lower Mainland is 9 ° C with a summer mean of 15 ° C and a winter mean of 3. 5 ° C.

Sto: lo traditional territory, known as Solh Temexw in the Halkomelem language, more or less coincides with the traditional conception of the Lower Mainland, except for the inclusion of Port Douglas at the head of Harrison Lake, which is in In-SHUCK-ch territory, and the lands around Burrard Inlet.

Nevertheless, earthquakes with a magnitude of up to 7. 3 have occurred within 150 kilometres of the Lower Mainland.

This standard can now be spoken intelligibly by most younger people in Mainland China and Taiwan, with various regional accents.

One links Lyness on Hoy and Longhope on Walls with the island of Flotta and Houton on the Orkney Mainland.

Inter-Island flights are available from the Shetland Mainland to most of the inhabited islands including those from Tingwall Airport west of Lerwick, operated by Directflight Ltd., in partnership with Shetland Islands Council.

Taiwanese cuisine itself is often associated with influences from mid to southern provinces of Mainland China, most notably from the province of Fujian ( Hokkien ), but influences from all of Mainland China can easily be found.

By 1850, Luanda was one of the largest Portuguese cities in the Portuguese Empire outside Mainland Portugal exporting ( together with Benguela ) palm and peanut oil, wax, copal, timber, ivory, cotton, coffee, and cocoa, among many other products-almost all the produce of a continued forced labour system.

Many Chinese Americans are immigrants along with their descendants from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, as well as from other countries in Southeast Asia and South America that include large populations of the Chinese diaspora.

In the Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement ( as well as the Mainland and Macau Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement ) the CPG also uses the Chinese characters 内地 " inner land ", with the note that they refer to the " customs territory of China ".< ref name = CEPA > English Text Chinese text

Imperial Japan was seeking for enough colonies and resources in Korean Peninsula and Mainland China to compete with Western powers at that time, and this was the only way to prove how fast Imperial Japan since Meiji Restoration in 1867 had run after the West and how serious it was about amending unequal treaties among Western powers.

At the peace conference between Imperial Japan and Qing Dynasty, Li Hongzhang and Li Jingfang, the ambassadors at the negotiation desk of Qing Dynasty, originally did not plan to split Taiwan away from the Mainland because they also realised Taiwan ’ s great location for trading with the West.

* Sovereignty, Wealth, Culture, and Technology: Mainland China and Taiwan Grapple with the Parameters of the " Nation-State " in the 21st Century

KMT officials visited Mainland China, and the Chinese ARATS met in Beijing with its Taiwanese counterpart, the Straits Exchange Foundation.

Professional horse racing came with the British aristocracy to China in the middle 1800s and most notably centered around The Shanghai Race Club-the Mainland China racing club and racecourse centered in Shanghai.

Whatcom County also has land borders with two administrative units of British Columbia, Canada, which together comprise the region known as the Lower Mainland, and also a water border with the Gulf Islands, which form Electoral Area G of the Capital Regional District.

There are also local programmes on national affairs and the Basic Law, as well as staff exchange programme with the Mainland.

The Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs () is the head of the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau, which is responsible for promoting the Basic Law, constitutional affairs, electoral development, and coordinate liaison between the Hong Kong government and the relevant mainland China authorities, as well as to promote various regional cooperation initiatives between Hong Kong and the mainland.

The sport can be seen at venues throughout Britain and Mainland Europe.

In Barrie's original tale, the name for the real world is the " Mainland ", which suggests Neverland is a small physical island offshore of Britain, and its tropical depiction suggests far offshore.

Therefore, Neverland could be a physical island, or a heavenly world above the earth or in outer space, and the " Mainland " could represent either Britain, or it could represent reality and the real world, or possibly both.

* British Mainland ( i. e. the island of Great Britain ), as opposed to the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, Northern Ireland ( although when used to differentiate Britain from Ireland it can be considered an offensive usage ) or any other British island.

* Mainland Europe, another term for Continental Europe used in many parts of the English-speaking world, but generally not in the United Kingdom ; usually in Great Britain, and sometimes in Ireland, mainland Europe is referred to as The Continent.

Mainland China was the most important trading partner, but commerce amounting to a few million dollars was also conducted with France, Britain, and with the United States through a Hong Kong intermediary.

The harbour at Fenit, called FENIT, is the most westerly commercial port of Ireland, Britain and Mainland Europe.

It led Britain to declare the Colony of British Columbia, which was also known as the Mainland Colony, to assert British authority and governance over the territory, which had been unincorporated in the wake of the Oregon Treaty of 1846.