Sentence examples for a shan from inspiring English sources

Rashid F, Shah A, Shan G. Long non-coding RNAs in the cytoplasm.

In 1253 a major part of Kamarupa was conquered by the Ahom, a Shan people.

(To the end of his life he thought of himself as a Shan separatist, growling Mandarin with a heavy Kokang accent).

The recent high-profile trial of a Shan drug lord, Naw Kham, in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, demonstrates how seriously the Chinese authorities take this threat, and how influential they have become in the region.

They included the leader of a Shan rebel group that had signed a ceasefire with the government, and the head of the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy, the party that came second in the 1990 election.

The government must contend with three separate and mutually corroborating reports -- the initial collection of accounts by a Shan human rights group a year ago, an unusual follow-up investigation by the State Department and most recently a report by an independent human rights group.

After defeating a Shan-led counterattack at Pyè (Prome) in 1544, Tabinshwehti was crowned as king of all Myanmar at the ancient capital of Pagan (Nyaung-U).

Alxa Plateau, Chinese (Pinyin) Alashan Gaoyuan or (Wade-Giles romanization) A-la-shan Kao-yüan, conventional Ala Shan Desert, southernmost portion of the Gobi (desert), occupying about 400,000 square miles (1,000,000 square km) in north-central China.

Related research article Kavran JM, McCabe JM, Byrne PO, Connacher MK, Wang Z, Ramek A, Sarabipour S, Shan Y, Shaw DE, Hristova K, Cole PA, Leahy DJ. 2014.

His funeral, at a local Shan temple, was attended by only a handful of people, almost all staff of a migrant safe-house where he spent his final days.

Khun Htun Oo, a leading Shan politician who was sentenced to 93 years' jail in 2005 for high treason and released in a mass pardon of political prisoners in January 2012, is one of them.