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beijing earthquake followed global hard heels olympic proved riots terms tibet torch tumultuous until year
Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay. Martin Jacques
beijing
What they need is some enforcement. More high-level directives from Beijing aren't going to do it. Robin Munro
beijing chinese exercise fact government hollywood mtv olympics power soft
The Beijing Olympics were an exercise in Chinese soft power. Americans have the 'Voice of America' and the Fulbright scholarships. But, the fact is, in fact, that probably Hollywood and MTV and McDonalds have done more for American soft power around the world than any specifically government activity. Shashi Tharoor
beijing cover flame games hope olympic people relay sacred taiwan torch
Many people in Taiwan hope that the torch relay of the sacred flame of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games can also cover Taiwan.
beijing congress costs employers idly policy send signal sit strong trade
send a strong signal to Beijing that Congress will not sit idly by while China's mercantilist trade policy injures U.S. employers and costs us jobs.
beijing chinese common cuisines dishes food great kinds originally originated serve street
They say that the cuisines of different Chinese provinces arose originally to serve different kinds of constituencies. Beijing was the cuisine of officials. In Shanghai, that was the cuisine of wealthy merchants and industrialists. In Szechwan, the food of the common people. Many great Szechwan dishes originated in street stalls. Nicole Mones
beijing blue boring city hometown industry
My hometown is a very boring city. There isn't a lot of industry - there are a lot of trees. It's not like Beijing where the sky is always dark. In my city the sky is blue and the sun shines. Liu Wen
beijing case court decided drop prosecutor
The prosecutor decided to drop the case and the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate Court agreed.
beijing billion investing olympics pounds quarter
We are investing a quarter of a billion pounds between now and the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Richard Caborn
close games late mistakes won
We've won some close games this year, and that's made us better. We made a lot of mistakes late to let them back into the game, but we responded.
close inside shut tried
We want to try and shut down the inside game. We have to try and close the paint, which is what we tried to do all season, anyway.
closed happening
We want to show the world what is happening there. We want the place to be closed down.
close crossing decision maximum movement next opened security suicide threats wave weighed
We want to see maximum movement at the crossings, but that decision has to be weighed next to the very real security threats that there are, ... If we opened every crossing and there were a wave of suicide bombings, then we'd just have to close everything down again. Mark Regev
close hear next nobody
Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you. Muddy Waters
closed north
The other two ramps which will be closed are from the southbound Lodge to north and southbound Telegraph.
closer help helps students
The other students help us out, and it's a way to help them out in return. It helps me get closer to other students doing this.
closely european performance strength
The performance of European equities corresponds closely to the strength of the dollar.
closer great interested market value
We value the partnership we've had with them over the years. They do a great job. We're interested in negotiating something a little closer to market value.
facts may opinion
You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a # fact . Charles Spurgeon
factor growth leading robert since success thank valuable vision
We want to thank Robert for his valuable contribution to the Company's development and growth since its inception, ... His entrepreneurial vision has been a leading factor in our success to date.
facts embarrassing theft
[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft. David Graeber
facts economic globalization
Globalization is a fact of economic life Carlos Salinas de Gortari
facts sacred comment
Comment is free but facts are sacred. C. P. Scott
facts republican celebrate
Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women. Cathy McMorris Rodgers
fact feels funny might mug people twice wake
I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny. Luke Bracey
fact positives truth
The positives are closure. The fact is we participated with an ineligible player. That's the truth. You can't sugar-coat that.
fact last proud
We are proud of the fact that we surpassed last year's donation.
foreign good investment perception
The perception is that foreign investment is not good for jobs.
foreign missiles producing technology
We are producing these missiles and don't need foreign technology for that.
foreign image lives move national nearly ourselves outside
Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country. Kate Grenville
foreign great hand interests pacific perhaps someday whose
Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession. Jose Rizal
foreign good indonesia investors preventing
We know our responsibilities to our investors, and one of our challenges has always been preventing foreign investors from thinking that Indonesia is not a good place to invest.
foreign limited
Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them. Wang Jianlin
foreign means media mentioned military political since war
Since foreign military intervention or a war are out of the question, other means of destruction of Yugoslavia are being mentioned -- psychological, media and political pressures. Slobodan Milosevic
foreign people province running students trend visitors
She is representing this trend of foreign students or people who are visitors to the province who are running into problems.
foreign note received seemed strange today ukrainian
We have received a note today from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. It seemed very strange to us.
judgment profit draws
A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see . William Shakespeare
judgment checks good-judgment
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check. Baltasar Gracian
judgments later ought played reserve statements twelve
Let's be honest, what are we? Twelve and five? We've played 17 games. I think we ought to reserve those kind of judgments and statements to much later down the road. John Brady
judgmental hard
I've worked really, really hard on myself to not be judgmental. Jane Fonda
judgment should judgment-of-others
I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the judgment of others - even others better than I am. Barbara Deming
judgment liar thief
Milosevic, who in my judgment is a liar and a thief and a scoundrel, Lawrence Eagleburger
judgmental cop behavior
Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous. Barbara Sher
judgments translate vote
Shareholders will be able to make better judgments about compensation, and that can translate into how you vote for directors.
judgment rush
What you've had here . . . is not a rush to judgment -- it's a stampede to judgment, Arlen Specter
local meant police protect
We want the local police to do what they were meant to do -- protect their citizens.
local signs unless
Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.
local oftentimes positive
There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs. Sylvia Mathews Burwell
local money talent
Make the most of your money. Use your local talent and try to have something for everyone's taste. Mary Mark
local role since worrying
Since Sept. 11, the local police, our role has changed, ... Before, we were worrying about burglaries, thefts. David Dunn
local support wants
She wants to support her local tournaments. We're disappointed, but we understand.
locally people project
We want to keep this project local. There are people locally who will invest.
local money
We want to keep that money here, and we want to use local people.
local
We want to keep it local and we want to keep it Canadian.
mean secret purpose
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation. Charles Caleb Colton
mean men light
Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.
mean gossip secret
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
mean advice asks
We ask advice but we mean approbation.
mean propriety disciple
Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.
mean atheism knaves
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
mean men dresses
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them,--for every one, sees how we dress, but none see how we live, except we choose to let them. But the truly great are, by universal suffrage, exempted from these trammels, an may live or dress as they please.
mean love-is effort
Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort. Charles Dickens
mean land consideration
The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence. Charles Sturt
problem chopping horns
...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns. Alan Watts
problem holy judaism
We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
problem thousand right-place
As God is exalted to the right place in our lives, a thousand problems are solved all at once. Aiden Wilson Tozer
problem theological handiwork
Because we are the handiwork of God, it follows that all our problems and their solutions are theological.
problem bigs big-problems
The big problem is not whether the Bible is true. The big problem is whether it is true in you.
problem sort
We want to sort of put this out there that this is an institutional problem and not just one incident.
problem wells solutions
If you can properly define the problem, then you've already defined the solution as well. Chip Kidd
problem gender should
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
problem victim
Those who fume at their problems become their victims.