Fruit Chan's Made in Hong Kong takes an oblique look at a schizophrenic city hovering between its colonial past and an uncertain future.
Mr Assad himself added more oblique warnings in a rare interview published in February, declaring that the forums were not representative of public opinion, that the term civil society was a foreign invention, and that he would never allow the interests of the state to be endangered.
Of course, your lyrics are a bit more oblique, because I guess it's hard to sing a line as straightforward as brother, brother, brother, there's too many of you dying in 2006.
From time to time the king still comments on politics, albeit in a suitably oblique manner.
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Chamberlain was placed on the DL Friday, retroactive to April 28, because of a right oblique strain.
Toronto designated hitter Rajai Davis left the game with a left oblique strain.
The Mets will almost definitely ensure that Wheeler who missed Wednesday's scheduled start with a mild oblique strain doesn't reach "Super Two" status.
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Mets prospect Zack Wheeler got on a mound Thursday for the first time since he was scratched from a start eight days earlier with a strained oblique muscle.
It includes sod roofs, a row of oblique projecting windows and an organic entrance canopy.
Wheeler was scratched from his Wednesday start because of a strained right oblique muscle.
The opposite-field shot showed manager Fredi Gonzalez that Freeman is back in form after missing two weeks in April with a strained left oblique.
American diplomacy did nothing to prevent passage of the Security Council's condemnatory resolution, focusing instead on making UN's criticism of the Jewish State a tad more oblique.
This was, of course, a none too oblique reference to last week's controversy when the First Minister was obliged to apologise for citing an external letter which turned out to be a draft written by the FM's own adviser.
With the departure of Soriano, who signed with Washington, a larger bullpen burden will fall on David Robertson, who never completely bounced back from a strained left oblique last May, and Joba Chamberlain, who returned in August from 14 months of injuries.
When the organization "changed practice in a way that seemed oblique or inconsistent, donors were angry, " she said.
As brilliant as Beefheart was, he hewed to a particular type of oblique poetry that was his alone.
Mets pitching prospect Zack Wheeler (mild oblique strain) is scheduled to throw a bullpen session Thursday.
Language comes at the world from a different angle, more oblique but in its own way just as telling, if you read it right.
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But then he sent speculation buzzing again, making a not-so-oblique reference to Chelsea, the team that is rumored to be courting him to return this summer.
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Unlike the bluntly bluesy garage-band sound of the Stones, Mr. Fagen's music is a rich-textured, harmonically oblique amalgam of rock, jazz and soul.
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In a more immediate, though more oblique, threat to Mr Barak's political well-being, the attorney-general recently ordered the police to investigate Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual leader of the traditionalist Shas party, for publicly cursing Yossi Sarid, the education minister and leader of the secularist Meretz party.
Through a series of narrative jumps, the oblique dialogue teases the audience as Karam tries to capture both the process of suffering and the comedy of how we cope with it.
In July, the green paper on proposals for a London mayor discussed, albeit in oblique terms, another form of earmarking the possibility of taxing non-residential parking and using road charges as a way of financing the capital's future government.
Placido Polanco was 2 for 3 with a double in his return from an oblique strain that had sidelined him since March 1, and the Marlins beat the Mets 4-2 Saturday as Justin Turner became the latest injured New York player.
The long months of slow, sequestered progress vanished instantly, casting doubts on her plans, and his oblique agenda in East Naples reduced her to feeling like a mere chauffeur.
The severity of the laboratory test was equivalent to an oblique collision with the rocky surface of the Earth - a comet coming in at an angle of less than 25 degrees from the horizon, rather than head on (perpendicular to the Earth's surface).
On these grounds, any attempt to fictionalise Adolf Hitler should be anathema, yet he is the oblique subject of Norman Mailer's latest novel, his first in a decade.
Though the aesthetic is rough-and-ready, Hawley is a sincere and sensitive storyteller who brings the characters to life with subtle, oblique touches that show who they are without saying too much about them.
John about shop girls and dresses and makeup, yet they share an oblique and poetic way of honoring the workaday courage with which people make their way through life and a constant sparkle of humor that manages to be at once sly, subtle, and robust.
She told a regional forum in Hanoi that the sea was an American national interest, and made an oblique rallying-call to unity among China's various rival claimants for bits of the sea.
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