A majority of those surveyed expect the security situation in their local area to improve in the next year, although in regions where there is major conflict, respondents are less optimistic about future improvements.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

And this was largely a secular, a less religious movement that focused on the Palestinian identity, nationalizing the conflict, making it national.

这是个非宗教，宗教因素不那么重要的运动,主要集中在于寻求巴勒斯坦身份，把冲突推向国家性质。

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The Apology and the Crito represent a tension, they represent even a conflict between two more or less permanent and irreconcilable moral codes.

苏格拉底自辩篇》和《克里托篇》,代表着一种张力，它们甚至可说代表着两种,多少算是永恒,且无法调和的道德规范。

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