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Examples

  • Mr. Lechleiter's thoughts are in Asia not merely because he just returned from a trans-Pacific trade summit, or because emerging markets make up an increasing share of the pharmaceutical industry's business.

    'The Biomedical Century' Joseph Rago 2011

  • Although the success of a trans-Pacific rapid-delivery service now seems a given, four decades ago few could predict that American consumers would have computers and electronics delivered direct to their homes from China.

    Overnight and Underage Wayne Curtis 2012

  • Indeed, amid news that Samsung surpassed Apple in third-quarter smartphone sales, a Samsung executive, Won-Pyo Hong , made the trans-Pacific connection clear.

    Out of the Factory Evan Ramstad 2011

  • China's assistant foreign minister, Wu Hailong, characterized U.S. expectations for a trans-Pacific partnership as "too high," beyond the reach of many Asian countries, and the president's agenda as "too ambitious."

    China Might Have Over-Reached Itself Irwin Stelzer 2011

  • It is unlikely American will reduce or scrap routes between major cities in the U.S. and Japan, as their trans-Pacific business "is generating favorable results," JAL President Masaru Onishi said at a news conference.

    JAL President Dismisses Worries Over AMR Bankruptcy Yoshio Takahashi 2011

  • Both members of the Oneworld alliance, JAL and American jointly operate several trans-Pacific routes, and there should be no change in that cooperation despite the bankruptcy protection filing, he said.

    JAL President Dismisses Worries Over AMR Bankruptcy Yoshio Takahashi 2011

  • I had done an online cram course in radiation to conclude that even if I had been quite close to the crippled nuclear facility and I was at least 30 kilometers away at all times, I was unlikely to have picked up more radiation than I would absorb on a trans-Pacific flight - or, at the very worst, a chest X-ray.

    The View From Japan's Nuclear 'Hot Zone' 2011

  • Neptune's volume rose 12% to two million forty-foot-equivalent units, a measurement by container size, as shipping increased in the trans-Pacific and Asia-Europe routes.

    Neptune Orient Returns to a Profit P.R. Venkat 2010

  • I had done an online cram course in radiation to conclude that even if I had been quite close to the crippled nuclear facility and I was at least 30 kilometers away at all times, I was unlikely to have picked up more radiation than I would absorb on a trans-Pacific flight - or, at the very worst, a chest X-ray.

    The View From Japan's Nuclear 'Hot Zone' 2011

  • JAL operates a total of nine trans-Pacific routes under a joint agreement with American, whose parent AMR Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection last week amid stiff cost competition and surging fuel costs.

    JAL President Dismisses Worries Over AMR Bankruptcy Yoshio Takahashi 2011

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