The massive crowd waiting for trains at Guangzhou's station, forced to make do for days in makeshift camps, was estimated by the government at more than 500,000-strong.

在广州火车站等待列车的大批旅客被迫几天住帐篷过夜。据官方消息称，滞留广州火车站的旅客已达50万人。

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President McKinley, without waiting for the Senate to act, ordered the American military government in Manila to extend its control throughout the Philippines.

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Shadow Welsh Secretary Bill Wiggin told Tories that under Mr Howard, the party had become a "government in waiting".

BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | Tory banned from conference

But the impression that this is a party still in recovery rather than an alternative government in waiting was emphasised by a fuzziness over policy in many key areas from education and health to transport and defence.

ECONOMIST: On the up

Attitudes toward the polio vaccination differ sharply between the Pakistani Taliban, a movement with little chance of taking over the state, and the Afghan Taliban, who ruled their country in the past and see themselves as a government-in-waiting, ready to return to Kabul once the U.S.-led coalition departs next year.

WSJ: Polio-Vaccine Teams Are Withdrawn in Pakistan