My watch is behind by four minutes.

This is the 'Caliphization' of the West; the Bible now read as if it were the Koran; Calvin's asharia looming up on the horizon

Thus the unendurable burden on the temples was lightened. For instance, the annual surtaxes of Buddhist temples' landholdings of Hsia-p'u county which had amounted to 515 taels in the late Ming dropped to 309 taels after Ch'ien-lung's edict, and to 229 taels soon afterwards.

He was railroaded into signing a non-disclosure agreement at his exit interview.