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‘Cities can be coastal.’

[⟨det (plur city.n)⟩ coastal.a]

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In 1980, Polish Pomeranian coastal cities, notably Gdask, became the place of birth for the anticommunist movement, Solidarity.
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), revolts and rebellions resumed in the Lebanese coastal cities.
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In Simple Wikipedia:

Great Britian sent gunboats to attack Chinese coastal cities.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

But the reason there were victims is that the Mayor didn’t evacuate the city – let that horrible photograph of a huge parking lot full of unused busses soaking in floodwaters be a warning to all mayors of coastal cities, cities near faultlines, and cities near volcanos: Don’t wait for the federal government to offer advice, don’t hesitate for fear that if worst doesn’t come to worst you’ll catch heat for wasting money… if you get a warning, ACT.
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The Great Manmade River, a network of pipelines that transport water from the desert to the coastal cities, supplies Tripoli with its water.
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A scheduled shelling of American coastal cities on Christmas eve of 1941 was canceled because of the frequency of coastal air and surface patrols.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

ADONES will consist of 1,500km of submarine cable, providing a backbone network for mobile and broadband traffic, covering around 70 % of Angola’s population, which is mainly concentrated in coastal cities such as capital Luanda.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Fitzpatrick also notes the tremendous importance of the services sector, notably transport – Mozambique’s coastal cities would be the send – off points for goods from South Africa, Rhodesia, Zambia and Malawi.
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In Wikipedia:

The Sahara dialects are notably more conservative than those of coastal cities (see Tuareg languages).
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Other coastal cities in Louisiana and Mississippi offer affordable and picturesque beach houses available for weekly rental.
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In the British National Corpus:

F S Civilis, a marine scientist at the UN’s Mediterranean Action Plan based in Athens, thinks it is not so much the oil spillage as the sewage from the coastal cities that is doing the most damage, with consequent algal growth killing off marine organisms.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

They’ve also missed something quite significant: The authors concluded that coastal cities like Liverpool and Sunderland had’ ’ lost much of their raison d ‘etre’’ with the decline of shipping BBC News So, perhaps we need to move some of the national things out of London?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

But these recent phenomenon, like huge masses of ice suddenly sliding into the oceans, will cause sudden avalanches of water rushing and devouring the coastal cities and countries.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Cults of Movement began popping up along the western seaboard, in groups of synchronized dance that pulsed in coastal cities.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The problem is worse in the coastal cities, where women have moved seeking better jobs and lifestyles, while many men have gone overseas…
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

In this undeveloped and waterless land, the radius of action of a force operating away from the coastal cities and the network of surfaced roads depended largely upon how much mechanized transport was placed at its disposal.
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This ships was designed to ram and destroy Jurchen pirate vessels, who were attacking coastal Korean cities.
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While some coastal cities include some of the wealthiest per – capita areas in the U.S., notably La Jolla near San Diego, Beverly Hills, in Los Angeles County, Newport Beach in Orange County in Southern California, San Francisco and Marin County.
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Slaves were generally used for agricultural labor, but they also filled skilled artisan jobs in shipyards and industry in coastal cities.
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Queried on 2013-05-25.