"groundless," and "China expressed its resolute opposition" to them, said Jiang Yu, a spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry, according to the English-language report on Xinhua.
"The Chinese side expresses its strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition," the statement said.
Spain, however, expressed its concern.
Caerphilly council expressed its "concern and disappointment".
BEIJING — In a harsh statement, China on Sunday accused Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton of presenting a distorted picture about its dispute with Japan over islands in the East China Sea, and it expressed "resolute opposition" to her position.
"France reiterates its resolute commitment to fighting discrimination and prejudice linked to sexual orientation and gender identity," he added.
And in fact, you could see The Matrix itself as a buried, meta-commentary on its resolute faithfulness to its own genre.
Tinariwen is a more worldly band now than it was in 2001, when a performance at the Festival of the Desert in Mali introduced its resolute, hypnotic Saharan rock to an audience that carried its reputation beyond Africa.
Put aside, too, the point that the Bible, with its resolute emphasis on obedience to authority, is hardly a document proclaiming the boundless power of the free individual, even in its sublime Jacobean rendering.
What those eight thousand seven hundred workers will be doing next month or next year remains an open question since, even as the Air Force was demonstrating its resolute support of its own program, discussions had begun about how best to dispose of it.
