Sentence examples for Sian from inspiring English sources

Under pressure from subordinates, Zhang detained Chiang on the morning of December 12 (this became known as the Sian Incident).

That is what I basically feel, that I am bloody lucky that for the first time since Sian died, I can genuinely enjoy myself.

"We wanted to remind ourselves that we could do this sort of thing, and we could gather the community together again, and it's been so successful," said Swansea East MP Sian James, the secretary of the miners' support group.

Well that was my first fucking broadcast since Sian had had a chunk of her lung removed and chemotherapy.

But Sian was somebody... she would have had no time for any of us wallowing in self-pity or any of that stuff.

Outstanding were the Ling Canal in Kuangsi, 90 miles long from the Han capital; Changan (Sian) to the Huang He (Yellow River); and the Pien Canal in Honan.

He ordered the Manchurian army under Zhang Xueliang, now based in Xi'an (Sian), and the Northwestern army under Yang Hucheng (Yang Hu-ch'eng) to attack the communist forces in northern Shaanxi.

Originating at Xi'an (Sian), the 4,000-mile 4,000-mile road, actually a caravan tract, followed the Great Wall of China to the northwest, bypassed the Takla Makan Desert, climbed the Pamirs (mountains), crossed Afghanistan, and went on to the Levant; from there the merchandise was shipped across the Mediterranean Sea.