Sentence examples for xie from inspiring English sources

At age 20 Xie won the right to challenge for the women's world title, and, in 1991 she defeated Maya Chiburdanidze of Georgia, who had been champion since 1978.

The occasion for the gathering at which Mr Xin spoke was the recent release from jail of Xie Chaoping, a former prosecutor and journalist who had written and published a book about the forced relocation of hundreds of thousands of people during the construction of a massive dam on the Yellow River in the 1950s.

Xianghui Xie of Grandall, one of Proview's lawyers, says it has asked over 40 cities to do so.

"The Chinese government understands that it needs the stockmarket more than the reverse," says Mr Xie.

For proponents of the second of these popular caricatures, China's behaviour thus far at the UN's climate change summit in Durban might look like evidence.On December 6th Xie Zhenhua, the head of the Chinese delegation, told journalists that China was willing to be part of a new, legally binding global agreement to mitigate greenhouse-gas emissions, which could come into force by 2020.

And Mr Xie, it seemed, was giving China's blessing to the main tenets of this plan.His words therefore sent a shiver of excitement through the sprawling compendium of conferences centres, hotels and revamped car parks where the UN summit is taking place.

DI-xiecratism, like DI-xie; Di-XI-cratism, like De-MO-cratism; or Dixie-CRAYT-ism?Dixiecratism The ideology, notably a belief in racial segregation, of a group of conservative politicians in the southern states of America who seceded from the mainstream Democratic Party in 1948 in opposition to the party's policy of extending civil rights.

Although he apparently discarded it and we have no knowledge of its content, the famous poet Xie Lingyun (385 433) later spoke of Xiang Xiu as having treated "Confucianism and Daoism as one".

In Zhejiang, the first Chinese province to provide support for the rural elderly, the sex imbalance at birth has almost disappeared, according to Xie Zhenming, editor of China Population Today.

Xie Lihua, editor of Rural Women Knowing All, an immensely successful magazine (fancy a readership of 50m-60m?), describes how she helped to rescue two readers from Sichuan province who had been kidnapped and married off to men in Guangdong.

Xie Qihua, the president of Baosteel, saw her company's profitability drastically reduced in the mid-1990s when the government forced her to absorb four rival loss-making steel producers.Michigan University's Kenneth Lieberthal and Bain's Geoffrey Lieberthal, a father and son writing in the Harvard Business Review, blame weak management.