1995年,尼日利亚被这个主要由54个前英国殖民地国家组成的团体暂时取消了成员国资格,此前尼日利亚处决了9名少数民族人权活动人士,其中包括作家肯·萨罗-维瓦。
Nigeria was suspended from the 54-nation group of mainly former British colonies in 1995 after it executed nine minority rights activists, including writer Ken Saro-Wiwa.
“维瓦克,”她唤道,他迅速抬起头来回以一个微笑。
他所挑选的顾问们都是一些彻底的改革者:比如奥伦多•道格拉斯和肯•维瓦,这两个人都出身于民间团体组织。
Some of the advisers he has picked are dyed-in-the-wool reformers: men like Oronto Douglas and Ken Wiwa, who have come up through civil-society organisations.
壳牌迫于来自奥戈尼人民生存运动的压力而撤出了奥戈尼地区,此运动是由一名叫肯萨罗·维瓦的作家创立的。
Shell pulled out of Ogoniland under pressure from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), founded by a writer, Ken Saro-Wiwa.
保险业巨头阿维瓦公司对其100多万名客户的资料进行分析后发现,史密斯竟是英国最普遍的姓氏,其次是琼斯和威廉姆斯。
The analysis of just over one million customers by insurance giant Aviva came up, not unsurprisingly, with Smith as the most popular surname, followed by Jones and Williams.
如果维瓦·里奥是一名不可或缺的当代思想家,可能是因为他的工作是植根于一种持续的、哲学的与技术问题的交锋。
If Virilio is an indispensable contemporary thinker it is perhaps because his work is rooted in a sustained philosophical engagement with the question of technology.
自从1975年维瓦·里奥开始出版其未删节的著作,他的作品就已经谋求探究存在于人类与技术之间的这种循环关系。
Since he began publishing full-length works in 1975 Virilio's writing has directed itself towards a questioning of this circular relation that exists between the human and the technological.
这种风格始于《金色书》的作者安东尼。阿夸维瓦根据有关论述,《金色书》是所谓骈琦体的病态英语形式病的第一块土壤。
The process began with Antonia Guevara, author of El Libro Aureo, from which, according to some, the English form of the disease known as Euphuism was derived.
墨西哥的潘乔·维拉和意大利的塞尔瓦托·朱利亚诺的职业生涯一开始就受到严重伤害。
Pancho Villa in Mexico and Salvatore Giuliano in Italy began their careers harshly victimized.
维斯瓦泻湖上的堡垒在1239年改名为鲍尔高。
嘉宾作家维韦克·瓦德瓦是一个企业家变成学者。
警局发言人格斯·维拉努埃瓦表示,“这要取决于警察当时的意见和测试技术”。
"It depends on the expertise and opinions of the officers at the time," said police spokesman Gus Villanueva..
包括美国银行,瓦乔维亚银行和富国银行在内的各大银行也紧随着降低了他们的头等客户贷款最低利率。
Major Banks including bank of America, Wachovia and Wells Fargo soon followed with cuts in their prime rate. This is what Banks charge their best customers.
布瓦维尔和李诗韵都打算当医生和医学研究者。
He and Li both plan to be physicians and medical researchers.
这幅由宇航员在国际太空站上拍摄的图像显示了波兰东南部维斯瓦河洪水泛滥的景象。
This image, taken by astronauts onboard the International Space Station, shows widespread flooding along the Vistula River in southeastern Poland.
挪威奥斯陆大学的首席研究员伊丽莎白·科瓦维克说:“你不必采用极端的做法使自己成为生活方式健康的人,好的习惯加起来就已经非常健康了。
“You don’t need to be extreme to be in the healthy category, ” said lead researcher Elisabeth Kvaavik of the University of Oslo. “These behaviors add up, so together it’s quite good.
像花旗和瓦乔维亚一样的大银行有专门的部门来指导女性理财。
Major banks like Citigroup and Wachovia have special departments to guide women with their finances.
然而,不论普罗维登斯还是纽瓦克,它们计划关闭的学校数量可能都没有底特律多。
Neither Providence nor Newark has plans to close anything like as many schools as Detroit may have to.
泰国证交所负责发行和上市的市场总监维差特。坦提瓦尼克说,之前被耽搁的上市计划已经重上轨道。
Vichate Tantiwanich, chief marketing officer in charge of issuers and listings at the exchange, says previously delayed plans are back on track.
第三个问题是,卡廷·斯基是否应该安葬在克拉科夫的瓦维尔大教堂。
A third question is whether Mr Kaczynski deserved burial at the Wawel Cathedral in Cracow.
瓦霍维娅公司前董事长托马斯-R-威廉斯发现,许多在银行界工作的年轻人不知道什么时候该停止研究方案,什么时候该着手结束工作。
Thomas R. Williams, former chairman of Wachovia Corporation, discovered that many young people in banking don't know when to stop researching a project and start wrapping it up.
欧洲的心脏在维斯瓦河和波罗的海跳动着。
The European heart is beating here on the Vistula and the Baltic Sea.
罗莎莉·戴维和美国宾夕法尼亚州维拉·诺瓦大学的迈克尔·齐默尔曼说:“这可能与现代社会致癌物十分普遍有关。”
"This might be related to the prevalence of carcinogens in modern societies," write Rosalie David and Michael Zimmermann of Villanova University, Pennsylvania.
作为流经波兰境内的一条干流,维斯瓦河发源于波兰南部喀尔巴阡山脉的巴拉·尼亚山麓。
A major river in Poland, the Vistula originates on the western slopes of the mountain Barania gora in the Carpathian Mountains in southern Poland.
与此同时,美国两家大银行正在为收购陷入困境的瓦霍维亚银行而争斗。
Meanwhile, two big U.S. Banks are battling to take over the troubled bank Wachovia.
玛利亚姆的父亲不屑于这种说法:他女儿秘密嫁给了瓦噶波维。
Mariam's father scorns the idea that she was secretly married to Vagabov.
自那以后的数年里,瓦维洛夫的设想一直在予以修正。
自那以后的数年里,瓦维洛夫的设想一直在予以修正。
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