Sentences with phrase «of clandestine meetings»

Yang's work is inspired by a series of clandestine meetings that took place in the mountains of northern China in the 1930s, when American journalist Helen Foster Snow interviewed the Korean national Jang Jirak; she recorded his stories in her book Song of Ariran (1941).

The aim of the clandestine meeting was to create a «new basis of trust,» according to Der Spiegel.

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A version of this article appears in print on June 11, 2013, on Page A13 of the New York edition with the headline: Cryptic Overtures and a Clandestine Meeting Gave Birth to a Blockbuster Story.

SAN FRANCISCO — Uber and Waymo's industry - critical battle over self - driving car technology now includes allegations of cover ups, clandestine meetings and big stock payouts.

Each March, for as long as anyone can remember, the governor, the speaker of the Assembly and the majority leader of the Senate hold frequent, clandestine meetings to hammer out important policy decisions and

Among other advantages, legalizing pot would would eliminate the strain on public lands resulting from its clandestine cultivation as well as meet higher standards for the use and disposal of toxic substances

D - day came and I arrived for a clandestine meeting at an airport (the name of which I shall better not disclose) with a person I had never set eyes on in my entire life.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — Even when they're underground, nuclear tests can be detected in the skies — and as a result, global satellite networks could become a powerful new tool in the arsenal of weapons to help detect clandestine underground nuclear explosions, a team of scientists reported here today at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

I could almost hear the clink of china during Thanksgiving dinner's past, or the rustle of an underskirt as the previous owner of this dress darted off to a clandestine meeting.

Waters has in the past described his personal sensibility as «Bunuel meets Caddyshack,» and that description aptly captures some of the wild tonal shifts that mark Sex and Death 101 — a movie that includes a gross - out bait - and - switch reminiscent of Stifler's clandestine closet hook - up in American Wedding, but also sincere questions and insight about the existential crises to be found in knowing beforehand one's lovers (and, by extension, non-lovers).

Screenwriter Howard Himelstein preserves the spine of the play, in which «infamous and poor» Mrs. Erlynne (Helen Hunt) reduces herself to clandestine meetings with married man Robert Windermere (Mark Umbers), who dutifully issues her checks.

All of this is extraordinarily documented in the 2014 documentary CITIZENFOUR which recounts Snowden's clandestine escape to a Hong Kong hotel room where on June 6, 2013 he meets filmmaker Laura Poitras and investigative journalists Glenn Greenwald and The Guardian's Ewen MacAskill to whom he releases classified information — as we watch!

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Clandestine meetings took place between 2008 and 2009 where the CEO's of the top publishing houses met up to decide how they would dethrone Amazon from ebook supremacy.

Legend has it that a group of royalist resistors once used the pub as a clandestine meeting place.

Do also keep abreast of action as it happens via our main site Twitter stream for 140 character reports straight from both the show floor and clandestine closed - door meetings.

Soon, you'll meet a pair of sisters named Muse and Prim, who are leaders in a clandestine revolutionary faction hellbent on revealing Magnastar's intentions and removing him from power.

The Steering Committee on Justice Efficiencies and Access to Justice, and the National Symposium on Reinventing Criminal Justice, to name two, have seemed like revolutionary, clandestine meetings with nervous dissemination of ideas for fear of government purges.

They backed this point up in the New Brunswick trial and the Supreme Court appeal using the Confederation debates of the 1860's, the expert testimony of a Canadian historian on nineteenth - century trade and the intentions of the BNA Act's framers, as well a secret 1924 letter describing a clandestine meeting between judges and politicians that purportedly delegitimized a foundational precedent on section 121.

Tales of spoiled Arctic sovereignty and clandestine meetings is presently all over the media as a result of the charges laid against naval officer, Jeffery Delisle, for allegedly disclosing state secrets to a foreign entity under s. 16 (1) of the newly enacted Security of Information Act.