Sentence examples for kwan from inspiring English sources

Relationships, says Mr Kwan, can comfortably be kept at arm's length.Not everybody in Japan welcomes the new business model.

Ms Kwan won five world titles and nine American ones.

Although American Michelle Kwan moved up to the senior level at age 12, she did not win her first world championship until 1996, when she was 16. "Older" skaters such as Kwan and Maria Butyrskaya (who at age 27 won a gold medal at the 1999 World Championships in Helsinki) now compete against younger skaters because the great equalizer, compulsory figures, is gone.

For Pot Luck, the artist Gayle Chong Kwan has produced two pieces of work, the first of which is Cockaigne, a series of photographs that form a mythical, panoramic landscape created from one single food stuff.

Gayle Chong Kwan, an artist who partly works with digital media, said: "I think it's fantastic for people to make art that makes them feels like they are part of Tate".

The skating world, embarrassed by the scandals of the 1993-94 season, was looking for a champion who would conduct herself with dignity, and Kwan, then 16 and the defending national and world champion, seemed like a gift from heaven.

The new edition provides testimony starting in 1970 about different types of forced-labour camps: the kwan-li-so for political prisoners, from which there is usually no release; the kyo-hwa-so penitentiaries mostly for those serving out sentences as common criminals; and detention centres for those forcibly repatriated from China.

In 1624 the copper kwan-ei was first issued and remained in vast variety the usual issue for more than two centuries.

Ngan Shing-kwan thrived by sticking to two principles: devotion to the buses and counting the pennies.CMB has faltered because his children learned just one of those rules, and that all too well.

She and her brother, Horace, who is assistant manager, took over the running of CMB a few years ago after the semi-retirement of their father, Ngan Shing-kwan, who had run his uncle's rickshaw service in Kowloon in the 1920s and had won the first exclusive licence to operate a bus service in Hong Kong in 1933.

Even [Lee] Kwan Yew during his time abolished Chinese schools in Singapore.