"Every time Americans debate the problem of states' rights, the relationship of federal power to state power -- which we are indeed having a roiling debate again -- and every time we debate not only race relations, but the very idea of what it means to be an American, multi-racial,greatly diverse society, we are debating the direct legacies of the Civil War."

VOA: special.2011.04.09

The modern state, as we have come to understand it, is based upon the separation of civil society from governing authority.

我们所了解的现代国家，是根据,区隔公民社会与统治当局的角度来看。

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In fact, we can never be fully free of the fear and of the anxiety and uncertainty of the state of nature, even within to some degree of fully constituted civil society.

实际上，我们完全可以,脱离恐惧焦虑和,对自然状态的不确定,甚至在一定程度上可以摆脱完全文明的社会。

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Civil society groups are calling on President John Atta-Mills' government to draw up a comprehensive biofuels policy to reconcile these issues.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

Nicola.Supposed you wanted to leave civil society today.

妮可拉，假设你现在想脱离文明社会。

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The lawyers,the opposition, the civil society is going to be in the streets, although they [i.e.,authorities in Pakistan have started mass arrests.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

The state of nature fully continues, in many ways, oddly even in civil society, he says, whenever we have reason to believe that our lives or our properties or ourselves are not secure.

从很多方面来说，自然状态，即使在文明社会里也显得奇怪，不论我们是否有理由相信我们有生活,生命和财产财产安全的保障。

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Under the reforms, civil society groups now have the opportunity to hold talks with selected countries.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

How do we get out of it? This is of course for much of the book. What do we do to get out of this state of nature to enter ? a condition of civil society and civilized life?

我们怎么摆脱它呢,所要讲的一个重要问题,我们要怎样才能摆脱自然状态,从而进入文明社会的状态，过上文明的生活呢？

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But local business and civil society groups are starting to stage counter demonstrations.

VOA: standard.2010.04.03

Jean Mamboundou says opposition parties have failed to heed civil society's call for a single candidate because many believe they can win the election outright on their own.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

and they did it,". He says reforms undertaken by communist dictatorships never lead to systemic change without an active opposition creating what he calls a "civil society movement."

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Weber said the report recommends fighting poverty and using U.S.political and economic leverage with authoritarian governments to promote democratic reforms and create a middle class and a civil society.

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

The main opposition coalition of political parties, civil society groups, and trade unions organized the strike to remember those killed, beaten,and raped by members of Guinea's military on September 28.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

President Obama has recently faced additional criticism after the State Department denied funding to some organizations with projects supporting civil society, rule of law and human rights monitoring efforts in Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

The government says it will now work with a new umbrella organization called the Civil Society Coalition on Land to push ahead on land rights issues including biofuels, environmental management, and sanitation.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

"So our goal really as we go about is to have close relations with both the political authorities as well as civil society because that is where we are drawing our employees from."

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

So we thought this was the time to actually convene policy makers together with civil society with small communities of people living with HIV, to get together under one roof and start talking what's next.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

Republican Representative Chris Smith was among seven members of Congress who wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressing concern that programs promoting democracy, civil society and rule of law in Iran were being de-funded or halted.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

(Recording) Toure says civil society groups face many challenges to changing the way the epidemic is spread including finding sustainable financing, integrating the work of anti-tuberculosis campaigns, reducing the stigmatization and discrimination surrounding the disease, improving access for treatment, and boosting efforts to prevent mother-to-child transmission.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

"Civil Society plays a key role in helping to communicate the need for mothers to bring their children in early for vaccines to complete the vaccination series to make sure that non-governmental organizations deliver and offer vaccines not only one day a week necessarily but on a regular basis,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.28