Khabure said that her best sense of the situation is that the LRA's original objectives were long ago hijacked by the numerous outside groups who benefited from the region's instability and began supporting Kony's rebels.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

The statesmen in the Aristotelian sense is the one who seeks to return as quickly and efficiently as possible to the normal situation.

亚里士多德式的政治家,是一位寻求尽可能快速且有效,回复到正常情势的政治家。

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"Manifest destiny,and so forth. And I think most of the world probably feels it is in the same situation as Astrix and his village Gaullois in that we can identify with that sense of wanting to hold out and resist against the encroaching powers.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22