Rather, in return for access to the Chinese market and various forms of protection, the rulers of tribute states were required to give gifts - literally tribute - to the Emperor as a symbolic acknowledgement of China's superiority.
It also licenses this aggregate data, along with pricing, benchmarks, market analyses and contract efficiency ratings back to government departments themselves, not for cash, but rather in return for enhanced information.
Proper Promming is akin to an act of faith: you wouldn't put yourself through all that queuing and humidity and aching feet if you didn't expect something rather special in return.
The president will be seeking assurances of Russian agreement to a relatively brisk abdication by Assad (months rather than years) in return for legitimising the Russian boots-on-the-ground campaign in Syria.
It says that 61% of those who were told ad blocking would mean some websites would have to begin charging for content saying they would rather see ads in return for access, with just 4% saying they would pay.
After the obligatory monosyllabic grunt to question one, the cocky smirk that accompanied grunt number two, I was relieved that, in response to question three, he actually asked me a rather interesting question in return.
I recall him being nice about his stepdaughter by his fourth marriage, about his American jazz drumming heroes, about Eric Clapton – who's rather more guarded in return – and pretty much no one else.
These principles lay behind the New Poor Law of 1834 which required many recipients of assistance to live and work in gender-segregated special workhouses, rather like prisons, in return for a meager subsistence income (see Roberts 1960 36 455, on Edwin Chadwick's role in designing the New Poor Law; and see Hamburger 1965, for a discussion of Chadwick's intellectual context).
In return, rather than having malpractice cases go to the civil courts, we could establish an independent body to determine the economic damage to the injured party and pay it from the general Treasury revenues.
People would make contributions to cover themselves for difficulties such as unemployment, sickness and old age, and they would receive benefits in return rather than rely on the means-tested dole of the 1930s.
According to reports in Washington and Taipei, Mr. Chen will stop in New York May 21 to May 23 and then in Houston on June 2 and June 3, as he returns from a visit to five small Central and South American countries -- some of the small number of countries that still recognize Taipei rather than Beijing, usually in return for large foreign aid packages.
