This raises the need for a global system of checks and balances, for mandatory rules and constraints in our dealings with nature.

这就需要建立一个全球性的检查和制衡体系，在我们与自然打交道时制定强制性的规则和约束。

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We're familiar with some of them: the system of checks and balances, the Senate, etc.

有些制度我们很熟悉：制约平衡制度、参议院制度等等。

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What looks like a system of checks and balances today could look like gridlock tomorrow.

如今看起来像是一个权力制衡制度，而明天可能就会陷入僵局。

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But people of all opinions feared that the president was trying to destroy the careful system of checks and balances in the federal government.

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But I think as time went on after the Rose Revolution, I think he wanted to perpetuate this kind of system in which there was really absence of checks and balances, no real opposition included in the political process very much sort of governing by committee of the inner circle, of loyal allies around the president.

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Karma, a cosmic accounting system of checks and balances (the ultimate exercise, perhaps, in self-metrification).

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Despite periods of suspension, the American system of checks and balances always reasserts itself.

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"It's a built-in system of checks and balances, with more total security for the player, " says St.

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