The party of William Sprigge and Robert Wood, the educational reformers, was not a force for emollience.

The attacking arm held up the forearm of his starboard manipulator and waved it around in victory in front of the ceramic dome. In front of Chad. I'm not done yet, you sonofabitch, Chad reached down, flipped two protective covers, and jettisoned both forward arms.

Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there. For his signature, however, that was different.

The aim of this paper is to examine the continually evolving dynamics of cross-strait relations.