His travails would seem to have little relevance to the race to replace him except that collusion between Hong Kong's government and its business elite disgusts the public, and makes Mr Tang even more unpopular.Because Mr Tang retains the support of some of Hong Kong's loftiest landlords such as Li Ka-shing, he still has a chance on election day, March 25th.
But even a quick brain, a legion of good advisers and the loftiest of intentions are no guarantee.
GTA V is caught between the need to appeal to casual gamers and an ambition to create a deeper and more meaningful experience.At its finest GTA V reaches the loftiest levels of art.
The building has dethroned the Willis Tower in Chicago as North America's tallest skyscraper, but still looks up to others in the battle to be the world's loftiest.
Another foe of the plan, Daphne Mavrogiorgos, said the turbines would have been almost as high as the island's loftiest peak.
They both had claims to be China's loftiest buildings at their time of opening, as the new Shanghai Tower may too.The title depends on the development of Sky City, however, a project in the interior city of Changsha.
Twice a day, all but the loftiest are swallowed up by the tide, leaving only the tips of their mangrove trees above water.Life here is precarious: not just because unreliable embankments hold the tide back from the inhabited places, but also because of the tigers and crocodiles that stalk them.
Making up the loftiest portion of the mountains that extend the length of the island, the Alps extend from Haast Pass, at the head of Wanaka Lake, northeastward to Arthur's Pass.
The loftiest portion lies within Great Smoky Mountains National Park (a UNESCO World Heritage site) and includes Clingmans Dome (6,643 feet [2,025 metres]; the highest point in Tennessee) and Mounts Guyot, Chapman, Collins, Le Conte, and Kephart all at elevations above 6,000 feet (1,830 metres).
I learnt from him, that Poetry, even that of the loftiest and, seemingly, that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive causes.
Although the loftiest peak in the Austrian Tirol, the Wildspitze (12,382 feet [3,774 metres]), is in the Ötztaler Alps and its highest parts are covered by glaciers, the Central Alps generally are less rugged than the Limestone Alps, and much of their original wood cover has been cleared for pasture.
