Some questioned whether Mr. Biederman and other directors of the district might challenge the city in court, maintaining that it was denying them their right to operate a public-spirited, nonprofit organization.
The two visitors were also barred from discussing Mr. Gao's wife, Geng He, and two children, who fled to the United States in 2009 with the help of a Christian organization that spirited them to Thailand from China.
That hope is the organization of spirited people who will fight for the freedom of the wilderness".
Over the past few months, however, what could have been a spirited competition between two organizations with differing principles quickly turned bitter.
We encourage all good-spirited nations and organizations to help us get rid of them.
The performers included Ballet Folklorico de Aztlán, Harvard's oldest cultural organization; Harvard Taekwondo, a spirited martial-arts group; the Pan-African Dance and Music Ensemble; the Harvard College Hellenic Society; and Mariachi Véritas.
If the only issue against Edwards is the criticism he leveled at the Jets organization last Tuesday in his spirited defense of Mark Sanchez, I say get over it.
His own great accomplishment in this hugely entertaining volume is to make unknowable London to a large extent knowable -- by the inspired selection and deft organization of extraordinary materials, and his spirited prose.
Under him, the organization also became arrogant, even mean-spirited, both in the way it treated its own and outsiders.
Furthermore, mean-spirited gossip is detrimental to the person or organization that is the topic of conversation.
Most of the people evaluating advertising have worked for the Motion Picture Association for at least seven years; Ms. Gordon's second in command, a spirited Russian woman named Yulia Dashevsky, has been with the organization for 21 years.
