Sentence examples for lang from inspiring English sources

Kunshan has Taiwanese-style coffee shops, Taiwanese restaurants and pedlars selling bing lang, the mildly narcotic betel nut beloved of some Taiwanese men.

Australia's richest woman is seeking to determine whether the drama is defamatory in its portrayal of her fraught relationship with her late father, Lang Hancock, and his wife Rose, a former housemaid Rinehart employed to care for her father after her mother died.

When I get out at the end, as the road meets the water, a group of revellers are linking arms and happily singing Auld Lang Syne when their chants are cut short by the sight of a man shivering.

Lang looks on at a childhood world, seen from above and at a distance, not with the children but observing them.

The second episode covers the legal battle between Rinehart and Rose Hancock over Lang Hancock's estate, as well as the dramatic scenes when he died.

Personally speaking, I think the most sympathetic character in the entire film is Derek Jacobi's Archbishop Cosmo Lang, a man just trying to do his job in the face of all kinds of unnecessary nonsense, and you don't have to read all that much about him to realise that he wasn't exactly Mr Nice Guy either.

That may mean sacrificing its own people where cuts must be made, rather than losing the talent it is acquiring.One voice from the battle not much heard in its aftermath is that of André Lévy-Lang, chairman of Paribas.

But Mr Bouton, who will succeed Mr Lévy-Lang as chief executive, says this is "an open and expansive merger".First to consider among potential acquisitions will be another French bank, Crédit Lyonnais, due to be privatised in the spring.

Yet Mr Lévy-Lang is lukewarm about bidding for Crédit Lyonnais, arguing that keeping profitable partnerships with the privatised bank will be more important than owning it.Despite Mr Strauss-Kahn's comments the French government has made it hard for foreigners to buy French banks.

As a former nuclear physicist, Mr Lévy-Lang should take fusion in his stride, but he used to disparage "the value of gigantism".

That will require a change of tune from Mr Bouton's new partner, André Lévy-Lang, the chairman of Paribas, who will be chief executive of the new bank until he retires in 2002.