Women did not do these things alone - but these things could not have been achieved without women and girls taking matters into their own hands.

这些成就不仅仅是由妇女取得的，但是没有妇女和女童将该事务把握在自己手中，就不会取得这些成就。

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They refused to follow the status quo and did things their own way.

他们拒绝追随现状，而是按他们自己的方式做事。

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All of these small things that are bothering you may be harmless on their own, but they hurt you because they touch your wounds just like the water did.

所有困扰着你的这些小事也许本身无害，但是它们会伤害到你，原因正如水一样，它们触及到了你的伤口。

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To appreciate the costs of inadequate coordination, consider the case of Airbus, where, for historical reasons, different parts of the organization long did things their own way.

WSJ: The Unsung Beauty of Bureaucracy

In the end, Manchester City collected the points easily enough but they certainly did not have things all their own way.

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When Alan Mulally became boss of an ailing Ford Motor Company in 2006 one of the first things he did was demand that his executives own up to their failures.

ECONOMIST: Schumpeter