Sentence examples for huai from inspiring English sources

(Bad man, huai ren, was a term jestingly applied to those rule-breaking Hainan adventurers).

It said that downstream of Anhui, in Jiangsu province, pollution in the Huai itself had caused more than $25m of damage to crops in 2000 and affected the drinking water of 2.4m people.The drought is not helping.

Officials admit that in Anhui, as indeed in the rest of China, the problem is getting worse, despite a few trumpeted improvements.One of the proclaimed successes concerns the Huai, the country's seventh-longest river, which flows through Anhui.

Two dams collapsed on the Huai river in August 1975 leading to the deaths, according to leaked government estimates, of 30,000-100,000 people.

In Huainan, a city in the middle reaches of the Huai, officials proudly show off their pollution-control facilities.

To press the point, in 1858 British forces stormed the forts of Dagu, at the mouth of the Huai river, and threatened to move on Tianjin, two days' march from Beijing.

A DPP spokeswoman, Hsieh Huai-hui, says her party fears the ECFA will "strengthen interdependence".

Only a few weeks before October 1st, he had sustained the first frontal challenge to his personal authority since the beginning of his reign: a scathing attack on the great leap by his minister of defence, Peng Teh-huai.

Peng Dehuai, Wade-Giles romanization P'eng Te-huai, original name Peng Dehua (born Oct. 24, 1898, Xiangtan, Hunan province, China died Nov. 29, 1974, Beijing) military leader, one of the greatest in Chinese communist history, and minister of national defense of China from 1954 until 1959, when he was removed for criticizing the military and economic policies of the party.

Yau, a stocky man of fifty-seven, stood at a lectern in shirtsleeves and black-rimmed glasses and, with his hands in his pockets, described how two of his students, Xi-Ping Zhu and Huai-Dong Cao, had completed a proof of the Poincaré conjecture a few weeks earlier.

In the spring of 2003, after Perelman completed his lecture tour in the United States, Yau had recruited Zhu and another student, Huai-Dong Cao, a professor at Lehigh University, to undertake an explication of Perelman's proof.