Mr. Tang Guangting (China) (2007)

My knees still buckle every time I get on a stage.

It's the law always buckle your safety belt in cars and airplanes.

I used the galvanize and copper in a very light gauge, so it would buckle.

The species of fish landed include blue tang, doctor fish, parrotfish, grunts, triggerfish, snappers and groupers.

ZK For example, you could make a watch that wraps around your wrist, but doesn't use a buckle.

And for a long time I fought this, and I thought, Well, gee, I really ought to buckle down.

I'm going to take you on a 16 minute trip on 72 percent of the planet, so buckle up.

Despite the language barrier, with the help of translated subtitles, European audiences would be able to understand Tang Xianzu .

And they live up on the Chang Tang, the Tibetan Plateau, way in the western part of the country.

The Workshop was addressed at its opening by the His Excellency Mr. Tang Jiaxuan, State Councillor, and by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour.

State Councillor Tang, inter alia, welcomed current subregional human rights initiatives and emphasized the need for regional cooperation to be established gradually throughout the region by way of consensus.

Express appreciation to the Government of China for hosting the thirteenth annual Workshop, and welcome the participation of His Excellency Mr. Tang Jiaxuan, State Councillor, as well as his welcoming address

Rather than buckle to France s will, however, the Romanian president warned France s leaders to stop lecturing his country a sure sign that French influence is on the wane even in countries with which it has had close historical ties.

Singh is one of the best economists in the world. At the same time, he demonstrated that he has a spine of steel when he refused to buckle under to severe pressures to renounce the India United States nuclear deal.

There are families today near Xian, in what was the heartland of the Tang Dynasty Empire, with two acre dry wheat farms and a single goat. There are other families throughout the world that could buy that wheat farm with one day s wages.

The goal of the program, inherited from the previous administration, is a good one expand knowledge among the young about modern China. But, as Tang correctly pointed out in response to a question about the protests, the devil is in the details.

Tang Jiagui, deputy chief of the animal management department at Chongqing Zoo, told the reporter that if a female panda gives birth to twins in the wild, it would usually choose to feed the stronger one but neglect or turn down the weaker one.

That changed in 2012, when Leung Chun ying was appointed as Hong Kong s chief executive. China s first choice for the position, Henry Tang, was forced to withdraw because of private indiscretions and a disgraceful bid to have his wife take the fall for a zoning violation.

Sayyid Haitham Bin Tang Al Said (Oman) (spoke in Arabic) I have the honour to convey to the Assembly greetings from His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Said, Sultan of Oman, and his best wishes for success in its endeavours to achieve the desired goals and objectives.

Another was found to have been a slumlord who owned illegal cage like flats that he blamed entirely on his wife, denying any involvement whatsoever. Leung himself was caught with several illegal structures in his house, a violation that he exploited successfully against his rival, Henry Tang, in the election campaign.

And so when the going got really tough in the polio eradication program about two years ago, when people were saying, We should call it off, the Polio Partnership decided to buckle down once again and try and find innovative new solutions, new ways to get to the children that we were missing again and again.

Indeed, for everyone in the former communist world who sought to build a free society out of the wreckage of totalitarianism, the Iron Lady became a secular icon. Her qualities of courage and persistence of being not for turning provided a living example for us of a type of leadership that does not buckle at moments of political peril.

Li concluded his statement with the message, delivered via three lines by two canonical Chinese poets from the ancient Tang and Song dynasties, that his home was where he felt safe. The subtext to any literate Chinese was clear China may be my ancestral country, but I am a free man, free to choose my home.

Chinese leaders may still view North Korea as a strategic buffer state, but China s status as a global power is pushing them to view the North in a new way. Former State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan was even reported to have said recently that denuclearization is now a higher priority for China than stabilization of the Korean Peninsula.

Although China s government does not keep any of its international commitments on economic, social, and cultural rights, the world s democracies appear to have lost their willingness to stand up for their beliefs, as President Barack Obama s kowtow to China during his November visit painfully demonstrated. But it was a refusal to buckle to the values of Nazism and Communism in the twentieth century that assured the success of freedom.

Li, an avid reader of world history and literature, has apparently not taken to heart the lesson that so many Chinese have learned, through great personal tragedies, since 1949. The core values of China s government are not informed by the humane civility of Tang or Song poets, but by the twisted dialectics of Marxism Leninism and the amoral militaristic tradition of a party that still cherishes its often brutish and violent habits of governance.