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During the guanyin shi (market of Avalokiesvara), from March 15 to 20, in Dali, various merchants came, and the government mobilized police and soldiers to ensure security and to protect the businesses. 181

Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

He spoke of his fears and what the United States was doing in iraq, toppling one government, electing another, was creating what he called a shi’ia crescent, from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut that threatened to dominate the Arab world, challenging modern Sunni governments in Egypt and Saudi Arabia and others with an axis of Shia power based in Iran.

Think Progress » Matthews: War in Iraq United ‘the Disparate Pieces of Shia Radicalism into a Frankenstein Monster’ 2006

The Chinese-language papers used the phrase yan shi zheng for the disorder.

Crazy Like Us Ethan Watters 2010

Because the number 4 is pronounced shi, which is also the word for death.

Patrick Takahashi: Piffle Squared 2008

Finally, at theOsaka shi mondai matome site [大阪市問題まとめサイト], one blogger arguesthat the connection between blank zones and so-called assimilation districts [同和地区] (orburakuminareas) is just a new variation on an old theme:

Japan: Street View's Missing Streets 2008

After the five of us (five people had to be buried in sand) got out, the other four including this 16 yr old girl called shi hua, waddles into the water and washed off their sand covered clothes in the ocean.

cooltwinz Diary Entry cooltwinz 2008

The sa'-fug, or wild cock, is most commonly caught in a snare, called "shi'-ay," to which it is lured by another cock, a domestic one, or often a half-breed or

The Bontoc Igorot Albert Ernest Jenks 1911

In other words, the average land-tax was forty per cent, of the yield -- called shi-ko roku-min -- or four parts to the Government and six to the farmer.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

In fact, I read that some Japanese women will even pronounce "shi" as "si" to sound cute and lispy like a child.

Literacy among Etruscan specialists less than 10% (or Alphabet Chess) 2007

With today being Dental Caries (Decay) Prevention Day (in Japanese, one way of reading June 4th is mu-shi, which is the first two syllables of the phrase 虫歯予防デー, mushiba yobou de -, or the aforementioned Dental Caries Prevention Day), let’s take a timely look with goo Ranking at what people are most afraid of when going to the dentist.

Too much bother main reason for avoiding dentist 2007