Even the People's Bank of China has been accorded great latitude due to the difficulty of problems it faces, though in the People's Republic of China the official role of the bank remains that of a national bank rather than a central bank, underlined by the official refusal to " unpeg " the yuan or to revalue it " under pressure ".

This decision may reflect a realpolitik understanding of the threat Japan faces from a rapidly modernizing China, which from its continued and indeed growing pattern of anti-Japanese demonstrations reveals the belief that old historical scores remain unsettled.

As Shanghai faces the East China Sea, seafood is very popular in the region.

The official view is that China has now reached an economic and political stage, known as the primary stage of socialism, in which China faces new and different problems completely unforeseen by Mao, and as such the solutions that Mao advocated are no longer relevant to China's current conditions.

The One-China principle faces opposition from the movement for Taiwan independence, which pushes to establish Republic of Taiwan and cultivate a separate identity apart from China called Taiwanization.

The Southern District faces the South China Sea at the south, and is backed by hills and reservoirs, designated as Country Parks, at the north.

The peninsula faces the South China Sea to the west and Subic Bay to the north-west, and encloses Manila Bay to the east.

Ilocos Norte faces the South China Sea to the west and the Luzon Strait to the north.

It faces the South China Sea in the south and is away from Guangzhou and Zhuhai by highway.

It is situated near the mouth of the Kuantan River and faces the South China Sea.

Though bilateral trade has continuously grown, India faces massive trade imbalance heavily in favor of China.

:" The clock is ticking for Chicago Lighthouse ," writes McCarthy, " which faces heavy new competition from China.

This new program relies heavily on lessons learned from the times of the barefoot doctors, but faces many challenges in providing sufficient, cost-effective care for China ’ s rural populations.

Half a world away in rural China, Lin, who shares a birthday with Katie, faces a much different reality.

On the west, it faces the South China Sea, and on the east the Sulu Sea.

Nowadays in some villages in China, the brides still follow the custom and use a fan to shield their faces.

Media in China faces few restrictions on content that is not deemed to be politically damaging.

With new faces, new studios and new equipment, the channel hopes it will strengthen news gathering abilities while it aims at voicing more perspectives from China and from Asia to the world.

While the United States strongly backs Japan's candidacy, it faces strong resistance by the People's Republic of China.

China National Tobacco faces a number of serious problems: namely, the counterfeiting of premium and foreign cigarettes, as well as a growing public awareness of the health risks inherent in smoking.

It borders Hà Tĩnh Province on the north with the Ngang mountain pass as the natural frontier, Quảng Trị province to the south, Laos to the west, and faces the South China Sea to the east.

Because the responsibility for resolving the issue lay with the President, rather than with his doctors, nothing raises more surely for us the difficulties simple goodness faces in dealing with complex moral problems under political pressure.

Wu Jinglian, one of China's leading economists and a longtime champion of its transition to free markets, says that it faces two starkly contrasting futures: a market economy under the rule of law or crony capitalism.

Many of the gopuras constructed under Jayavarman VII toward the end of the 12th century, such as this one at Angkor Thom, are adorned with gigantic stone faces of Avalokiteshvara.

Along with Tom Verlaine, in 1971 Hell also published under the pseudonym Theresa Stern, a fictional poet whose photo was actually a combination of both his and Verlaine's faces, in drag, superimposed over one another to create a new identity.

With the lack of new faces in the new APC cabinet under president Momoh and the return of many of the old faces from Stevens government, criticisms soon arose that Momoh was simply perpetuating the rule of Stevens.

Although the wooden type was more durable under the mechanical rigors of handling, repeated printing wore the character faces down, and the types could only be replaced by carving new pieces.

In watches sold for timekeeping, analog display remains very popular, as many people find it easier to read than digital display ; but in timekeeping watches the emphasis is on clarity and accurate reading of the time under all conditions ( clearly marked digits, easily visible hands, large watch faces, etc .).

Landing at Tauromenium ( Taormina ) in the summer, Timoleon faces two armies, one under Dionysius and the other under Hicetas ( tyrant of nearby Leontini ), who has also called in Carthaginian forces.

With a mix of drawing and upsetting the faces will be shaped so that when finally brought together the center of the weld will connect first and the connection will spread outward under the hammer blows, pushing the flux ( if used ) and foreign material out.

( Ezekiel 1: 5 ) Each of them had four faces and four wings, with straight feet with a sole like the sole of a calf's foot, and " hands of a man " under their wings.

The municipality is the westernmost of Finnmark, and faces the open stretch of the Atlantic called Lopphavet, and is mostly coastal with fjords and islands under the gigantic snowcap of the Øksfjordjøkelen glacier.

Inhumation occurred under flat ground or below small tumuli in a flexed position ; on the continent males lay on their right side, females on the left, with the faces of both oriented to the south.

Others, under torture, described it as being either a severed head, a cat, or a head with three faces.

Fluid bearings use a thin layer of liquid or gas fluid between the bearing faces, typically sealed around or under the rotating shaft.

A second limit is that of buckling-the structure requires sufficient stiffness to avoid breaking under the loads it faces, especially those due to winds.

The 2003 season began under head coach Mike Clemons and a host of faces both old and new.

One of the plaster faces depicts an older woman, with wrinkles at the corner of her eyes and bags under them, and a deeply lined forehead.

One young veteran, writing home from occupied Germany, predicted that the College would see a lot more men ’ s faces after the war, which turned out to be very accurate ; the education benefits offered under the GI Bill of Rights drove men to apply at unprecedented levels, including more African-American students.

Here he creatively used elementary, child-like script sloppily written in kana under the actor faces.

Statues of several Slavic deities were discovered in 1848, on the banks of the Zbruch river, a tall stone statue was found, with four faces under a single stone hat.

The $ 64, 000 Question had the opposite problem: sponsor Revlon – possibly under pressure from its chieftain, Charles Revson, who has been credited with expressing the desire for famous faces that prompted Challenges expansion to include celebrities-often tried to interfere with the production of Question, including and especially trying to bump contestants it simply disliked, no matter whether the audience liked them.

For the system to work well, the faces need to be seen from a frontal view under similar lighting.