That's made it a staple at lavish banquets, the very ones discouraged by Chinese President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign.
Instead, she's given a lavish chamber and plied with good food and entertainments.
They hope to have academic cheating, lavish funeral customs, and other activities tackled in a similar way.
A survey conducted this summer suggests students in Shenyang lavish most of their money on the opposite sex.
The ceremonies are often lavish, multiple-day affairs, with many costing thousands -- sometimes millions -- of dollars.
Investigators ruled that the lavish mementos should be treated as income, since they were not given "solely out of affection, respect or similar impulses".
'The pizza is extremely rich - if you're in the mood for a lavish meal, this is the pizza for you,' he said.
With ingredients that seductive, The Night Manager could hardly fail, and BBC One's lavish thriller of revenge, deceit and amorality duly entranced the nation.
It is certainly the case that Britain's run of success has come from lavish funding of Olympic sport, which has allowed potential champions to concentrate full-time on their disciplines, even in sports where little professional infrastructure exists.
The complaint described lavish spending by the people said to be involved in the theft of funds.
A lavish show then got under way for the assembled guests in Erstfeld, with dancers, acrobats, singers and musicians celebrating Alpine culture and history.
: The reception for the new Swedish ambassador at the Jennison's was quite lavish.
A liar is always lavish of oaths.
On Wednesday night, a group of about 40 to 50 soccer officials — including the executive committee members and their spouses or companions, as well as many top FIFA administrators such as Markus Kattner, the acting secretary general, and Marco Villiger, the organization's chief lawyer — attended a lavish dinner at Sonnenberg, an upscale restaurant known for its view of the city.
Overstreet broke open a celebratory bag of dried mangoes — a lavish treat for the ice campers.
64、He that regards not a penny,will lavish a pound.
Being a sponsor allows companies to show Bond-themed adverts, as both Gillette and Heineken are doing, or to mount lavish drinks parties -- featuring Belvedere martinis, as the spirits company plans for Tuesday night to celebrate the film's British premiere on Monday.
Thirty minutes later, we passed through a lavish carved gate and entered what looked like a palace or temple: buildings made of that orange brick, their doors shrouded in ornate sandstone carving.
Carmakers had already braced themselves for an era of slower growth amid a broader economic showdown in China, as well as an official clampdown on corruption and lavish shows of excess.
We were heading west now on Jamrud road, past the Cantonment and its lavish, high-walled homes.