Sentence examples for expensive banquet from inspiring English sources

A minor local official in Jiangsu Province was seen at an expensive banquet and then harassed and prevented from leaving by an angry mob.

With the sharks almost gone, Chinese diners are demanding manta rays and mobulid rays as ingredients for their expensive banquet stews.

But Shardlake's disillusion with the "ceremonials and flummery" of Tudor politics is pointedly expressed when he is required to attend a ruinously expensive banquet to celebrate the cessation of a ruinously inconclusive war with France: "Chivalry, I thought, is a strange thing".

Tony Chen, a manager at Grand Harmony Palace, a restaurant on Mott Street, said the soup was usually only on the menu for expensive banquets, and not a staple of anyone's diet.

At the same time, Xi signaled a political return to the past by celebrating the frugal ways of China's early CCP, exhorting officials to give up expensive banquets, and praising the standard official meal of "four dishes and a soup".

Later the same year, James I visited Scotland and on his return journey he stayed at the castles of Carlisle, Brougham, and Appleby, where expensive banquets were given in his honour.

But that scallop crudo — thinly sliced raw shellfish with green apple, chile and soy — is impeccably fresh, arranged in a manner that recalls an expensive Chinese banquet, and zapped with a bit of celery whose piercing green flavor lingers through the next sip of wine.

He was given the finest ingredients flown in from the world's most expensive shops, banquets of delight washed down with Barolo wine and Remy Martin.

Based on the location of the cellar and the amount of wine stored, researchers suggest that the Canaanite king served wine then an expensive commodity at banquets to show off his power and prestige.

The extortion boom comes at a time when many Communist Party members are begrudgingly enduring a government austerity campaign, pushed by President Xi Jinping himself, that has denied them the expensive, taxpayer-financed banquets and chauffeured sedans once considered the birthright of Chinese officialdom.

The party has already issued a five-year moratorium on the construction of new government buildings and banned the use of public funds for lavish banquets and expensive gifts such as moon cakes.