(1) Political pressure was always a fact of life in public media,” Mong told Reuters.
(2) A mong the multiple absurdities uttered by those who demanded Britain’s departure from the European Union is the claim that, since the sky has not yet fallen in, all those gloomy warnings from the remain crowd have been proved wrong.
(3) Will, and the four Fifa executive-committee members stood four square behind him — Lennart Johansson, Uefa's top politician whom Blatter had defeated in the 1998 presidential campaign, Issa Hayatou, the Conderation of African Football president who was challenging Blatter at the 2002 election, the Italian Antonio Matarrese and the Korean Chung Mong-joon — were all executive-committee members.
(4) The Federation of Students said the government must provide further explanation for the violence in Mong Kok on Friday before they can hold talks with the administration, the South China Morning Post reported.
(5) A mong the acres of coverage of Margaret Thatcher this week, one thing was clear: opinions about the former prime minister – who, in the words of Labour leader Ed Miliband, "reshaped the politics of a whole generation" – varied dramatically according to which generation the person came from.
(6) Some decided to withdraw from Mong Kok neighbourhood and the gate outside the chief executive’s office and to remove barriers on Sunday afternoon, but hundreds more promptly arrived to replace them.
(7) I will stay until they kick us [out].” Winnie Kwan, an accountant, said police actions in Mong Kok were “terrible and ridiculous”.
(8) A mong his first acts as prime minister, Tony Abbott abolished the position of science minister.
(9) tania branigan (@taniabranigan) V nasty mob mood in Mong Kok, cops holding crowd back but not many officers October 3, 2014 tania branigan (@taniabranigan) Occupy protestors totally surrounded.
(10) Last year, he became embroiled in a Twitter storm when one of his tweets included the word "mong".
(11) This latter group has been labeled as having chronic mountain sickness or Monge's disease.
(12) In 2010, after the media law was passed, Attila Mong, the anchor of the state radio’s morning show, protested with a one-minute silence on air.
(13) Witnesses said about 1,000 protesters faced off in Mong Kok, a densely populated known for its gang presence, at mid-morning on Saturday, but there were no uniformed police in sight.
(14) A mong the many challenges of writing is dealing with rules of correct usage: whether to worry about split infinitives, fused participles, and the meanings of words such as "fortuitous", "decimate" and "comprise".
(15) In the village of Mong, I give the prayer wheel and extra spin to purify the soul of Ricky Gervais.
(16) The region’s financial secretary, John Tsang, acknowledged that the mass movement was unprecedented, telling the South China Morning Post: “The government, political parties, community groups, the media and the public have no experience and psychological preparation to face this situation, making it all the more difficult to resolve.” Many participants have ignored leaders’ previous calls, such as to withdraw from the Mong Kok neighbourhood, where triads and others have attacked protesters and where many residents are angered by the ongoing blockade, which they say has hit their livelihoods.
(17) Everyone is just exhausted and we can’t go [on for a] long, long, long time.” Divisions appeared within the protest movement on Sunday, as some withdrew from Mong Kok neighbourhood and the gate outside the chief executive’s office, while others arrived to replace them.
(18) Mong Kok has also seen angry confrontations between protesters and residents, who said the occupation had disrupted their lives and damaged business – reflected in the large number of bystanders yelling at the remaining demonstrators.
(19) A much smaller number remained at Mong Kok in Kowloon.
(20) On Tuesday night, thousands of people gathered at three main protest sites – near government offices in the district Admiralty and on bustling commercial streets in Mong Kok and Causeway Bay – to watch a live broadcast of the dialogues projected on to big screens.
Monk
Definition:
(n.) A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty.
(n.) A blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused by the ink not being properly distributed. It is distinguished from a friar, or white spot caused by a deficiency of ink.
(n.) A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine.
(n.) A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthocephalus.
(n.) The European bullfinch.
Example Sentences:
(1) At least 14 At least 14 monks, nuns and former monks are believed to have set themselves on fire in the past year, mostly in traditionally Tibetan areas of Sichuan that have been focal points of opposition to central government control.
(2) The bi-annual Leonard Cohen Event was initially hosted during Cohen’s silent period when the singer embraced Buddhism and entered the Mount Baldy Zen Centre to live in seclusion as a Rinzai monk.
(3) "I urge both the monks and the lay Tibetans of the area not to do anything that might be used as a pretext by the local authorities to massively crack down on them.
(4) It left Monk rueing Shelvey’s disallowed strike, while also questioning why Oliver did not send off Koné, rather than book the forward, for an aerial challenge on Federico Fernández in the first half.
(5) 3 Turn left to follow the path, keeping Monk's Lode on your left.
(6) said: “The Bank of England seems all but certain to ease policy, with only the scale and form of easing in question.” Monks is predicting a bigger cut than many of his peers in the City, pencilling in a drop in official interest rates to zero.
(7) We are Protestant Christians, so by sending monks to chant sutras they were trying to get us riled up,” a member of one Zhejiang church told Radio Free Asia , a US-funded news website.
(8) Swansea were two points above the drop zone at that time, but Monk kept them up and was handed the permanent job the following May.
(9) The sunflowers are the brainchild of Kouyuu Abe, a Zen monk who owns a temple just outside Fukushima city and is committed to the "fight against radiation".
(10) Monk insisted Gomis deserved to be credited with the goal – “he covered every blade of grass, I think” – and applauded his gesture in grabbing a French tricolour from the touchline and waving it to the heavens in solidarity with those who lost their lives in Paris.
(11) They sat me in a chair and just shaved most of my hair off in weird concentric rings so I looked like a tonsured 14th-century monk who had had brain surgery.
(12) An activist has discipline, goals and strategy.” Amy K. Nelson (@AmyKNelson) Amazing scene here at QuickTrip: exiled Tibetan monks here & people are in awe, hugging them, wanting photos.
(13) That is the act of extremists," said one monk on the road near Aba.
(14) The first day I was beaten very hard and they asked: who organised the monks?
(15) Both Buddhist monks and police can be seen through much of the footage – the monks often taking part in the violence, the police watching immobile as it progresses.
(16) The aim of this study was to determine whether the austerely living Trappist and Benedictine monks have a lower prevalence of a number of risk factors and health problems than the general Dutch population.
(17) A gruff intellectual alternately nicknamed “Mad Dog” and “the warrior monk,” Mattis is deeply respected in much of the foreign policy establishment, despite notably clashing with the Obama administration over his more hawkish views on Iran.
(18) Shelvey collected his sixth yellow card of the league season against Aston Villa on Friday following a cynical foul on Gabriel Agbonlahor – he was sent off against Everton in November after being booked twice – and Monk said the midfielder is running the risk of becoming a liability.
(19) The brains of monke guinea pigs asphyxiated at birth pletely resuscitated, and killed a ous times thereafter revealed no chial hemorrhages.
(20) On the outskirts of Sheffield there is a wood which, some 800 years ago, was used by the monks of Kirkstead Abbey to produce charcoal for smelting iron.