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The new price mechanism, which targets the city-gate price, will be based on prices in Shanghai—considered to be a hub for gas trading and consumption.
Beijing Lets Natural-Gas Prices Rise in Two Areas Wayne Ma 2011
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The city-gate price is the cost of gas paid to pipeline owners by local gas utilities.
Beijing Lets Natural-Gas Prices Rise in Two Areas Wayne Ma 2011
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On the following day, accordingly, with the sacerdotes and clergy preceding him and his army, he entered the city-gate in solemn pomp, to the singing of hymns of praise, and proceeded to the church of the Holy and Most Victorious Cross to give thanks to God for the victory divinely bestowed upon him.
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So they went out and met him and pitched tents for him at the city-gate; and Ajib entered in to Jaland, weeping eyed and heavy-hearted.
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Then he opened his armouries and distributed arms and armour to the troops, after which he set out with them and journeyed till he came to Isbanir, and all encamped before the city-gate.
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King Jamak by a messenger, who came up to the city-gate and cried out, saying, “I am an envoy;” whereupon the Warder of the Gate went in and told Jamak, who said, “Bring him to me.”
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One day, the currier set a trap for him and taking him, beat him with the hides, till he fell down senseless, whereupon the man deeming him to be dead, cast him out into the road by the city-gate.
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Sabur commanded to pitch his camp hard over the city-gate, and
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So when the morrow dawned, we fared forth by the city-gate and all eyes were veiled from us, by commandment of Him who when He desireth aught, saith to it,
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As the visitor passes through the monumental city-gate, he looks down the block and sees a series of doorways in the red and white walls along the broad street.
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