Sentence examples for tung from inspiring English sources
noun
Obsolete spelling of tongue
- Passage=I am of this opinion that our own tung shold be written cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borowing of other tunges, …
With the proposed new security bill having exposed profound mistrust of China in the territory, Mr Wen appeared determined not to aggravate his government's image problem by appearing too close to Mr Tung.
Canteen-like San Tung, with its hand-pulled noodles and outrageous, crisp, sweet-sour-hot chicken wings is rammed every evening, for good reason.
Mr Tung now proposes to reduce those able to vote for those seats from 2.7m in the 1995 election to 180,000 next year: not an idea likely to keep people civil for ever.
The fourth, Chee-chen Tung, is a tycoon who happens, admittedly, to be the brother of Hong Kong's chief executive.
But few in Hong Kong will believe it was coincidental that the two happened to be the cabinet members whose removal had been most frequently demanded by pro-democracy protesters in recent days (apart, that is, from the ouster of Mr Tung himself).
But in response to the July 1st protest, Mr Tung had announced plans to water down the bill.
Ms Le's boss at Indochina Capital, Tung Kim Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American, reckons there is a bigger wave to come as older exiles return to spend their final years back in their homeland.
The oddest choice is Tung Chee-Hwa, the unremarkable first leader of Hong Kong after the British handover to Chinese control.In addition to naming those in charge, the amended prospectus also reveals other tantalising titbits.
In that year the then chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, was suffering a slump in popularity; massive demonstrations against him had been staged the previous year.
The fate of the court, Hong Kong's chief bulwark against Beijing's encroachment, has long been in limbo.It is possible for an optimist to see this as the latest of a small string of heartening decisions made in the five months since Tung Chee-hwa was chosen to be the territory's first chief executive.
But since Hong Kong's chief executive, the hapless Tung Chee-hwa, was appointed on China's say-so by a rubber-stamp electoral college, the real defeat is China's.
