But the military government is set to maintain tight control over the vote amid calls by Burmese political activists for the international community to boycott the election result.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

The large polyglot, multiethnic communities of today would not, on Aristotle's account, allow for sufficient mutual trust and friendship to count as a healthy political community.

大量精通数种语言者，今日的多民族小区，在亚里士多德看来，将无法提供足够的相互信任与友爱,因此无法被认作是健康的政治社群。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

To be a political animal means first to possess speech or reason that allows us to participate in a community or a way of life governed by shared standards of justice and injustice.

要成为政治动物的首要,是拥有演说或理性的能力,以让我们参与社群,或由共享公正,与不公标准所统治的生活方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Mr.Tandja says the referendum was a matter between himself and the people of Niger, a direct dialogue that did not include his political opponents or the international community.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

On Friday,Burmese political activists, supporters and politicians in Bangkok said there must be a concerted call by the international community for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and more than 2,000 other political prisoners.

VOA: standard.2009.05.15

He said he and U.S.President Barack Obama agree that whatever new government emerges will have to make a new contract with the international community and its neighbors to build its army, take tough action on corruption, create a more inclusive political process, reach out to moderate elements of the insurgency and stronger control of local affairs.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

"The draft resolution is nothing more than a document of political conspiracy of hostile forces, to put the veil of a unanimous message of the international community on the U.S.-led human rights campaign against the DPRK in a bid to deny and obliterate the state and social system of the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.20

Gambari said that during the secretary-general's visit last month to Burma, which is also known as Myanmar, Mr.Ban met with the country's senior leadership and asked them to free Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners as well as take steps to enhance the political process leading to next year's elections as a gesture of their credibility to the international community.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11