(1) Politicians, insisted Yes Minister's legendary mandarin , Sir Humphrey Appleby, simply cannot be trusted.

(2) A red-buttoned mandarin cap

(3) The idea was that no one can really tell the difference between a clementine, a satsuma and a mandarin .

(4) Sent to China to convert the heathens, Ricci began by dressing like a Chinese mandarin and learning the Chinese language until he was proficient in it.

(5) At last the fruits are ripe on the mandarin tree and you squeeze your first delicious juice from them for breakfast.

(6) Hugh had a problem with all the leaves falling off his mandarin tree.

(7) One minister did so, and claims to have been told by a senior mandarin that it was u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510disconcertingu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb for officials to find their minister talking independently to outside sources of advice.

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(9) To many British people, the idea of a mandarin or senior civil servant will forever be associated with Sir Humphrey Appleby.

(10) The mandarin shirt looks good on a select few, but it is not the classic choice if you're looking for long-term use.

(11) A civil service mandarin

(12) The mandarin is more likely to exercise bureaucratic discretion wisely, with an eye to morality and larger political consequences, than a technocrat afflicted with tunnel vision.

(13) Yin Zang Yan, a stereotypical Fu Manchu style Chinese man, dressed as a mandarin , glances around magisterially.

(14) The refined and leisured lifestyle from the 1920s and 1930s can be relived when viewers appreciate the varied designs of their mandarin gowns and the way they made themselves up.

(15) O'Neill, dapper in his mandarin suit and collarless white shirt, does not look like the rushing blur of today's press men.

(16) A French philosopher had more in common with a Chinese mandarin than with his barbaric Frankish ancestors in the Dark Ages.

(17) Clarke, whose father was a Whitehall mandarin , is known to believe that ministers, not civil servants, should be the mouthpiece for government policy.

(18) But we had come to partake, and we were ushered into the Chrysanthemum Palace to be met by smiling waiters in red mandarin coats.

(19) On front after front, bureaucratic mandarins are deciding how everyday Europeans will live.

(20) Yellow robes worn by mandarins inspired the 19th-century English name for the loose-skinned mandarin oranges.