Sentence examples for li from inspiring English sources
noun
The Chinese mile, a traditional unit of distance equal to 1500 chis or 150 zhangs, now standardized as a half-kilometer (500 meters).
"RELIGIOUS leaders...who hold meetings which take place late at night and break up by day, whereby the people are stirred up and misled under the pretext of cultivating virtue, shall be sentenced, the principal perpetrators to strangulation, and their accomplices to a hundred blows with the long stick, followed by a lifelong banishment to a distance of three thousand li".
At the time it was due to take place, the Communist Party was preparing for the annual National People's Congress, and its various organs were deliberating on the future of promising individuals such as Mr Li.
When Li Na recently tipped Petra Kvitova to win this year's Australian Open, she did so not just because of their close friendship and the respect she has for the Czech's game.
"The Chinese and Greek economies are mutually complementary," Li wrote on Wednesday in the conservative daily Kathimerini.
Moving the other way, Jackie Chan and Jet Li are fully fledged crossover stars; Chan appearing recently in a Chinese-American co-production, 2010's Karate Kid, alongside Will Smith's son Jaden.
The analysis was conducted by Dr Xi Li of Wuhan University in China, whose team found that the night-light loss showed a linear correlation with the number of people internally displaced from each Syrian province.
But two recent studies, which raise serious questions about the credibility of China's corporate earnings, suggest that companies may also have had an artificial boost.The less damning of the two is issued under the auspices of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and written by Giovanni Ferri, of Italy's University of Bari, and Li-Gang Liu of BBVA, a bank.
"Our phones are ringing off the hook," says Li Ang, who heads the capital's Greek-Chinese Commercial and Cultural Association.
Sunrise is a prize asset for BP and their joint venture partners Husky Energy – a Canadian firm controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-Shing.
An early muse was the actor Li Tobler, with whom Giger had a tempestuous relationship.
The latest attack comes days before Abuja is to host the World Economic Forum on Africa, with the Chinese premier, Li Keqiang, among the guests.
