(1) Obama is expected to offer personal condolences to his counterpart Park Geun-Hye over the tragedy, but the South's unpredictable northern neighbour is set to dominate the agenda.
(2) Xi and his South Korean counterpart, Park Geun-hye, issued a joint communiqué reaffirming their opposition to a nuclear-armed North Korea.
(3) Analysts say Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s dictator, is waiting to see how the Trump administration shapes up and who replaces South Korea’s disgraced president, Park Geun-hye.
(4) The conciliatory tone is being seen as an early attempt to reach out to the South's incoming leader, Park Geun-hye, who takes office in February as the country's first female president .
(5) While there is little prospect of summit talks, Abe said he wanted to explain the reasons behind his visit to the shrine to Chinese leader Xi Jinping and South Korean president Park Geun-hye.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest South Korean President Park Geun-hye has offered a public apology after a South Korean TV network reported reported that Choi Soon-sil, who has no official governmental position, was informally involved in editing some of Park’s key speeches.
(7) South Koreans are, however, looking for an antidote to the tired cycle of threats, tests, rebukes and sanctions, and some are cautiously hopeful that the president-elect, Park Geun-hye, who will take office in around two weeks' time, could change the status quo.
(8) The US president, Barack Obama, spoke to the South Korean president, Park Geun-hye, and the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, on Thursday and reaffirmed the “unshakeable US commitment” to their security.
(9) Last week Park Geun-hye’s approval rating fell to just 4% percent in a Gallup poll – an all-time low for any democratically elected South Korean president.
(10) Seoul welcomed the overture as “meaningful”, coming after the North’s state media had previously used sexist and personal language in attacks on South Korea’s first female president, Park Geun-Hye.
(11) President Park Geun-hye said in a speech that South Korea must bolster its national defence to neutralise North Korea's nuclear and missile threats.
(12) Some interpreted the move as an attempt by Lee to appeal to nationalist sentiment in the south and improve the chances of his party's candidate, Park Geun-hye , in December's presidential election.
(13) Observers are waiting to see how South Korea's new president, Park Geun-hye, will turn her desire for "trustpolitik" with the North into action.
(14) The closure is thought to be one of the most powerful non-military options open to the South Korean president, Park Geun-hye, as she formulates a response to the recent rocket launch and last month’s nuclear test .
(15) Kim Jong-nam’s mother Song Hye Rim ended up living in Moscow, away from him, and died there after struggling with depression for years.
(16) Earlier this year, the North called US secretary of state John Kerry a wolf with a “hideous” lantern jaw and South Korean president Park Geun-hye a prostitute.
(17) Kim So-hye, of the foreign ministry, said: "A lot of people from outside Korea came here and we meant for them to see [the celebrations], because you don't know a lot of things about Korea and probably might have some misunderstandings and wrong impressions."
(18) North Korea has announced the publication of a white paper criticising the human rights situation in South Korea , condemning the Park Geun Hye administration as “puppets under the rule of an American colony”.
(19) She was in a hippity-hoppity mood that day because of the school party.” He said: “As soon as she opened the door I saw her image on my screen.” In the finest showbiz tradition of keeping the show on the road, Kelly valiantly attempted to guide Marion towards some toys, while hoping the broadcaster might narrow the camera angle or use some video of Park Geun-hye.
(20) Kim Byong-joon’s comments came as opposition politicians and activists intensified their demands for prosecutors to investigate Park Geun-hye’s role in the scandal, which has plunged the country into political turmoil.
Nye
Definition:
(a. & adv.) Nigh.
(n.) A brood or flock of pheasants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alcohol and drug use were measured by means of the Delinquency Checklist (DCL), a self-report measure of delinquent behavior first developed by Short and Nye.
(2) Welsh, but London-based, Jones's real offence to leftwingers - heirs to Nye Bevan - was to be a Blairite, "parachuted" into Blaenau Gwent.
(3) Science has always been political but we don’t want science to be partisan,” Bill Nye, a prominent engineer and TV personality, told the Guardian .
(4) Retreating to your lab and hoping it will all go away is not going to be the best strategy Andrew Rosenberg, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration In March, Bill Nye , the bow-tied embodiment of science for many Americans, and Mona Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician who alerted the world to soaring levels of lead in the blood of children in Flint, Michigan, were named as honorary co-chairs.
(5) He’ll get Cristiano Ronaldo, no problem.” Cymru v Gwlad Belg – fel digwyddodd Read more There are already some striking statues in Cardiff – the architect of the NHS, Nye Bevan, musician Ivor Novello and rugby star Gareth Edwards to name but three.
(6) In a real sense it not only pits 36-year-old Smith, a former BBC producer and lobbyist, against Dai Davies, former shop steward at the down defunct steel works, but Blairism against Bevanism and Nye's ghost.
(7) Nye Bevan famously said that "the religion of socialism is the language of priorities" and there were echoes of this in David Cameron's recent remark while responding to the flooding crisis – "Money," he declared, "is no object in this relief effort.
(8) When it comes to North Korea, I tend to be a little bit sceptical about these sorts of things,” Nye said, recalling the much-heralded trip that the New York Philharmonic made to Pyongyang in 2008 , which did nothing for US-North Korea relations.
(9) It was seen in Nye Bevan's shift from "no first use" to deriding disarmament as an "emotional spasm" that would send Britain " naked into the conference chamber ".
(10) Last year, Austin Mitchell MP, a member of the Commons public accounts committee, accused the prince's private secretary, William Nye, of " dodging around for tax purposes ".
(11) In this article, Anthony Pinching and Keith Nye suggest that HIV or HIV proteins can sabotage transmembrane signalling and that this is of primary importance to the alterations in immune responsiveness.
(12) Soft power, a term first coined by the academic Joseph Nye, is the ability to harness international alliances and shape the preferences of others through a country’s appeal and attraction.
(13) I really have no other purpose than to make life interplanetary.” Bill Nye, chief executive officer of the Planetary Society and host of the popular TV show Bill Nye the Science Guy, was in the audience and described the energy of the crowd as “extraordinary”.
(14) Then came Nye Bevan at the Labour conference in 1957, attacking a unilateralist resolution as “an emotional spasm” that threatened to send British statesmen “naked into the conference chamber” .
(15) Zak Kelly says that many of his friends, in what is Nye Bevan’s old constituency, voted Ukip.
(16) Never forget the Labour party's passion for unity, Nye Bevan famously said.
(17) More than once I catch her throwing winning glances at the massed ranks of newspaper sketch writers – they're all here, sniffing the air for jokes – and she does an awful lot of snickering behind her hand, something that makes her seem complacent and a little rude (especially given Nye's exquisitely courtly manner).
(18) A modified version of the Nye-Short self-reported delinquency scale and measures of normative oreintation which we constructed were used in a mail-out questionnaire to public school students (N = 351).
(19) It was inaugurated when Aneurin “Nye” Bevan, the health minister who was its far-sighted creator, visited Park hospital in Davyhulme, Manchester.
(20) I often feel that some of the oddest questions faced by our arguments now would be like listening to Nye Bevan outline the case for the NHS, healthcare for all free at the point of need regardless of means, would have been challenged by the politics of now with questions like: “That’s all very well Mr Bevan but how many bedpans will you need in Wishaw and who is going to pay for them”?