Sentence examples for Mandarin from inspiring English sources

We ended on a modern take on the classic: 3 parts dry gin, 1 part white vermouth, a splash of benedictine and a dash of mandarin and orange bitters.

The man was John Kingman, Treasury second permanent secretary and a mandarin to his fingertips.

THE first law of diplomacy, one late British foreign-office mandarin used to quip, is that "It is not the other side you need to worry about, but your own".

There is "not much reason to change your mind," says the mandarin.

Third, the novice's chief credentials were that he had been a mandarin in the construction ministry.

But the cable suggests Britain regards it as "unhelpful"—a damning word in the mouth of a mandarin.

Gillard, the country's first woman prime minister, Welsh-born but more Aussie than her Mandarin-speaking arch-rival, ought to be coasting comfortably to win a second term in government.

Last year, Kevin Spacey also starred in a part-English, part-Mandarin Chinese film: Dayyan Eng's Inseparable.

Both are recruiting Mandarin-speaking staff and have Chinese-language websites and maps.

He liked to portray himself as at home in Asia, and to show off his skills as a Mandarin-speaker.

Language, for instance: what if one found oneself in possession of a posse of mini-Mandarin speakers?