Sentence examples for shan for from inspiring English sources

The T's seem to relate to the Chinese ideogram shan, for mountain.

"I want to put on record how grateful I am to Shan for the great working relationship we have had.

We thank all members of the Sabatini laboratory and T. Schwartz for insights; P. Abeyrathne, N. Grigorieff, R. Grant and C. Drennan for technical support; R. Saxton, M. Pacold and S. Shan for critical reading of the manuscript.

But I knew I was going to start the book by saying it was all true, so I then realised that I had a golden opportunity to use Darren Shan for the main character's name as well, and introduce the possibility that the story actually could be true.

We thank A. Buchberger, H. Rao, A. van Hoof, R. Voorhees and J. Warner for reagents; the Proteome Exploration Laboratory (PEL), Caltech, for help with the mass spectrometry analysis and the members of the Deshaies laboratory, M. Blanco, M. Guttman, B. Clemons, R. Voorhees and S. Shan for discussions.

Fo Guang Shan, for example, has 200 temples worldwide, including 20 in Europe and 24 in the US, not just for overseas Taiwanese but local people.

The ground between this and the Mi-khok was in 1837 considered neutral, and might be occupied by either the Burmese or Siamese Shans, for no boundary had been marked out.

Shan: Yes: for research, one needs to be a long-distance runner.

For her next project, National Heroine (1937), she cast her friend and travel companion Wai Kim Fong in the female lead and booked top-billing star Kwong Shan Siu for the male lead.

These findings illustrate that in the Tien Shan evidence for the most recent active faulting can be easily obliterated by climatic processes due to the long earthquake recurrence intervals.

But far from being a serene backdrop to peaceful village life, the Tian Shan (Mandarin for "celestial mountains") in this part of Kyrgyzstan are at the centre of one of the region's most ambitious and controversial mining projects and a long-running and increasingly tense conflict with communities nearby.