For example, 沙发 ／ 沙發 " sofa " and 马达 ／ 馬達 " motor " in Shanghainese sound more like their English counterparts.

The companies often favored the West Indian workers because they spoke English and were sometimes better educated than their Honduran counterparts.

The German pronunciation of both variants is identical to the English pronunciation of " Mike ", since both are directly derived from their English counterparts.

Most punctuation marks in modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean have similar functions to their English counterparts ; however, they often look different and have different customary rules.

One reason for this is that the English legal system was more developed than its continental counterparts by the time Roman law was rediscovered.

Among modern English speakers, solar deities are popularly thought of as male counterparts of the lunar deity ( usually female ); however, sun goddesses are found on every continent ( e. g. Amaterasu in Japanese belief ) paired with male lunar deities.

Chaos descended on English cricket in the Australian summer of 1887 / 8, as Lillywhite, Shaw and Shrewsbury organised their customary tour, at the invitation of the Melbourne Cricket Club, while a rival tour, that of the future Lord Hawke, was invited by their Sydney counterparts.

The characters of Hatta and Haigha ( pronounced as the English would have said " hatter " and " hare ") make an appearance, and are pictured ( by Sir John Tenniel, not by Carroll ) to resemble their Wonderland counterparts, the Hatter and the March Hare.

Many U. S. units are virtually identical to their imperial counterparts, but the U. S. customary system developed from English units used in the British Empire before the system of imperial units was standardized in 1824.

English traders frequently engaged in hostilities with their Dutch and Portuguese counterparts in the Indian Ocean.

Like their English and Welsh counterparts, then, the parks in Scotland are effectively " managed landscapes ", and are classified as IUCN Category V Protected Landscapes because of this.

Apart from the missile troops, the Norman infantry were probably protected by mail armour and armed with spear, sword and shield, like their English counterparts.

With a more diverse educational background and higher level of English proficiency, international Chinese students also value American degrees, as it gives them a notable advantage over their college-educated counterparts in China by the time they return to their native country to seek employment.

If the consonants and * used in Cree are compared to their English counterparts, it is noticeable that there is little distinction of voicing.

Whereas Old English had the unvoiced fricative sounds,, ( as in thin ), and ( shin ), French influence helped to distinguish their voiced counterparts,, ( the ), and ( mirage ), and also contributed the diphthong ( boy ).

They converse with each other in heavily formal French and German, and in moments of intimate personal conversation, escape into English as if to hide these comments from their lower class counterparts.

Meanwhile, the " League of the Scarlet Pimpernel ", a secret society of twenty English aristocrats, " one to command, and nineteen to obey ", is engaged in rescuing their French counterparts from the daily executions ( see Reign of Terror ).

In Ireland mayors are appointed in the same manner as their English counterparts at Town, Borough, County and City Council levels.

Intervening between his studies of Tacitus and Sallust was his 1958 set of lectures, Colonial Elites, which compared the processes and results of colonisation by Romans in Spain, by Spaniards in Latin America, and by English settlers in New England ; on various grounds, Syme distinguished English colonisation of North America from its Roman and Spanish counterparts.

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As the Jets sought to become a stronger franchise and remove themselves from their counterparts ' shadow, the team entered into negotiations with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in an attempt to build a stadium on the west side of Manhattan, entering a bidding war with TransGas Energy Systems and Cablevision for the rights to the West Side Yard property — Hess, prior to his death, had been approached by former mayor Rudy Giuliani about bringing the team to the West Side when their lease at Giants Stadium expired in 2008.

In the 1930s and ' 40s, as part of the integration of the different subway companies in New York City — the IRT along with Brooklyn – Manhattan Transit ( BMT ) and Independent Subway System ( IND )— the Third Avenue El and its counterparts on Second, Sixth, and Ninth Avenues came under criticism from New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia and his successors.

The images themselves, like their counterparts in experience, are not neutral qualities to be surveyed dispassionately ; ;

Poirot and his counterparts are perfectly respectable people ; ;

Nor would it be possible in many cases for them to live in health or any effectiveness on what their counterparts abroad are paid.

The proponents are scientific and technical men who exercise considerable influence on their military counterparts.

The girls are prone to dress far more flamboyantly than their counterparts out of town, and eye shadow, mascara, and elaborate bouffant hairdos -- despite the admonitions of cautious guidance personnel -- are not unknown even in early morning classes.

Most modern AFVs are superficially similar in design to their World War II counterparts, with significantly better armour, weapons, engines and suspension-however with an increase in the capacity of transport aircraft allowing AFVs to be practically transported by air, many armies are replacing some or all of their traditional heavy vehicles with lighter airmobile versions, often with wheels instead of tracks.

Objects placed in wind tunnel models are almost always smaller than in practice, so a method was needed to relate small scale models to their real-life counterparts.

The theory of abelian groups is generally simpler than that of their non-abelian counterparts, and finite abelian groups are very well understood.

In Danish and most southern varieties of German, the " lenis " consonants transcribed for historical reasons as are distinguished from their fortis counterparts, mainly in their lack of aspiration.

In duplicate bridge, the cards held by each player in each deal are preserved so that each partnership plays the same set of hands as their East-West or North-South counterparts at other tables and with the scoring based upon relative performance, thus emphasizing skill over chance.

Unlike their counterparts in the United Methodist Church, ELCA and ELCIC synod bishops do not appoint pastors to local congregations ( pastors, like their counterparts in the Episcopal Church, are called by local congregations ).

They can also operate at higher temperatures, and are often much less expensive than their traditional counterparts.

Public services and transport in Cuba however are regarded to be second-rate compared with its more developed counterparts on the mainland.

Prions are misfolded proteins which replicate by converting their properly folded counterparts.

With the exception of the sulfate, even the insoluble ones listed are in general more soluble than its transition metal counterparts.

* Stocks: Acadian stocks are more heavily seasoned than Continental counterparts, and the shellfish stock sometimes made with shrimp and crawfish heads is unique to Cajun cuisine.

Similarly to their adult counterparts, eggs and tadpoles are toxic to many animals.

Grierson's principles of documentary were that cinema's potential for observing life could be exploited in a new art form ; that the " original " actor and " original " scene are better guides than their fiction counterparts to interpreting the modern world ; and that materials " thus taken from the raw " can be more real than the acted article.

There are two distinct cultural traditions of dragons: the European dragon, derived from European folk traditions and which is ultimately related to Greek and Middle Eastern mythologies, and the Chinese dragon, with counterparts in Japan, Korea and other East Asian countries.

Signal Processing is a very mathematically oriented and intensive area forming the core of digital signal processing and it is rapidly expanding with new applications in every field of electrical engineering such as communications, control, radar, TV / Audio / Video engineering, power electronics and bio-medical engineering as many already existing analog systems are replaced with their digital counterparts.

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“ What ” and “ who ” questions are problematic sentences that this treatment method attempts to improve, and they are also two interrogative particles that are strongly related to each other because they reorder arguments from the declarative counterparts.