Sentence examples for qiang in from inspiring English sources

The 10th-seeded Williams, who last won the Miami Open in 2015, was to face 18th-seeded Wang Qiang in a third-round match Sunday.

There are written languages ofthe Qiang in the Shang Dynasty oracles, who at the time were active in the modern-day Gansu and Shaanxi area.

Even if the Qiang were not the main source of the Tibetan peoples, the important role played by the Qiang in the process of Tibetan formation is substantial.

In "Decoding the Chinese Internet: A Glossary of Political Slang," compiled by the China Digital Times, an independent media outlet, China scholar Perry Link and China Digital Times editor-in-chief Xiao Qiang write in the introduction that linguistic innovations have helped the Internet seem like a "new, open realm" in a China where plenty of subjects remain taboo.

Krzysztof Wodiczko and Cai Guo-Qiang, in different ways, also fall into a gap between Conceptual Art and sculpture.

The Wenchuan earthquake, which happened on May 12th, 2008, caused severe damage to settlements of the Qiangs in the upper reaches of Min River, including the "Tangping Qiang village," which plays a prominent role in Qiang stockaded villages.

But when a little girl leads, we call her "bossy" in English, or qiang shi in Chinese.

Xiao Qiang, editor in chief of China Digital Times, based in the United States, estimates that "way above 50,000" government employees, uniformed and nonuniformed, monitor the Internet, deleting posts, tracking offenders and crafting new policing technologies.

As is often the case for Burmic etyma, we find likely cognates for *tsap in a variety of Na and Qiangic languages, including Shixing, Guqiong and Qiang, and in Nungish languages such as Dulong, Anong and Rawang, so this is clearly an Eastern TB etymon.

The sale of certain offices and titles was reintroduced in Eastern Han by Empress Dowager Deng Sui who reigned as regent from 105 121 AD to raise government revenues in times of severe natural disasters and the widespread rebellion of the Qiang people in western China.

Beyond the album title, Guns N' Roses, known as "Qiang Hua" in China, did not shy away from pressing Beijing's most sensitive buttons.