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They were the original civil-service mandarins, though operating in a more dangerous climate of intrigue than their modern equivalents.

Failure , however, would be a heavy blow to Beijing technology mandarins who have backed TD- SCDMA with state cash and regulatory favour .

At Foreign Policy Research Institute salon abt Obama foreign policy, tried to get the mandarins to think about how world sees USA. Tried.

There were no voyages for the next seven years, as xenophobic mandarins exerted growing influence on Zhu Di's two immediate successors.

Mandarin tree is the most beautiful tree in the garden. There are many yellow mandarins inside of the green leaves.

He was too new, too inexperienced , and the mandarins knew too little about him.

Its navy was antediluvian: mandarins tried to emulate Western paddle-steamers with junks propelled by coolies turning treadmills.

If the result of this and other new rules is that ministers see less of outsiders, the influence of their mandarins is likely to grow.

any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa.

With the LDP's blessing, the mandarins made policy, to be rubber-stamped by the cabinet.

Unscrupulous corporate mandarins who run roughshod over their employees, loot their shareholders, and defraud their customers?

But if the system allows the ruling party to lose power then it becomes a lot less palatable to the modern-day Mandarins.

To replace them, governments will have to offer something more than the steady life that attracted the older caste of mandarins.

On the Peak, once home to colonial government mandarins, prices had the sharpest decline since the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98.

Business lobbied for contracts and support by pouring money into the party's coffers and the mandarins' pockets.

Treasury mandarins are already unsettled by doubts about who the chancellor of the exchequer will be next month or even next week.

In 2010, Obama seems decided to show the mandarins in Beijing that the US remains a power to reckon with.

China's mandarins are clearly not insusceptible to economic sense, and individual projects could bite the dust.

Stalls were heaped with mandarins, strawberries and other fruit, A nearby church was packed with worshippers celebrating Sunday Mass.

Best of all, say the mandarins, the prime minister respects "process" .

Mandarins are drawn by education and examination from all classes of the community .

Combine the rice, raisins, mandarins, walnuts and spring onions in a large bowl. Toss to combine.

Sceptics have also questioned his ability to wrest power from the mandarins who have dictated Japan's postwar economic policy.

The prime minister made a coded attack on mandarins as "enemies of enterprise" in March.

Keeping inflation down is of key concern to Beijing's mandarins.

But China's railway mandarins may be regretting their choice of name.

Even a love of talking unites mandarins from Beijing and Eurocrats from Brussels.

They married the local women and rose to become mandarins and military officials.

So the mandarins developed a test to scout for bureaucratic talent.

Today, China's new mandarins hope that Pudong's skyline is the answer.

The news will be welcome relief to Moscow's mandarins.

He has also vowed to take on the mandarins in Tokyo who have dictated postwar economic policy.

like rows of nodding gray-bearded mandarins.

As with monkeys, so with mandarins.

Staff members of the Cultural Institute introducing the restoration work of Mandarins House

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