Sentence examples for shan from inspiring English sources

The shan hun zu, or lightning-marriage tribe, marry fast and sometimes divorce faster.

Veggegirl's fresh coconut chutney was the perfect foil to a spicy vegetable curry, and kept well in the fridge for several days, as did Shan McAnena's Northern Irish Fifteens, while MizPepperpot's jerk pork goujons worked well for dinner and stuffed into pitta bread with salad the next day.

The clue to the recipe is in the name... Shan McAnena, via GuardianWitness Serves 10-14 15 large marshmallows, halved 15 glace cherries, halved 15 digestive biscuits, roughly crushed 150ml condensed milk 75g desiccated coconut 1 Toss together the marshmallows, cherries and biscuits in a large bowl, then gradually add the condensed milk.

We were now in the foothills of the Tian Shan mountain range: following an easy jeep track through summer pastures.

After 1989 the generals let him carry goods to the Thai border unimpeded if he acted as an emissary to the Shan, Wa and Kokang rebel armies.

There was a saying among the ethnic Chinese in Shan state, like him: commerce was commerce.He had not traded opium from the start, though.

When the Burmese army threw out all the princes, he changed sides, and in the anarchy of Shan state in the 1960s he became captain of a militia of 3,000 men.

(To the end of his life he thought of himself as a Shan separatist, growling Mandarin with a heavy Kokang accent).

He was resourceful, and seemed to know everyone in the ethnic chaos of Shan state.

"WHAT'S going on inside the Bank of China is the opposite of how it looks at the moment," says Shan Weijian, an independent director of its Hong Kong subsidiary.

In 1973, when the militias began to be disbanded, he joined the rebel Shan State Army, disappearing deep into the jungle.