If the time for heel-dragging has been shortened, the true source of the anxiety and panic remains what it has always been.

如果犹豫不决的时间被缩短了，焦虑和恐慌的真正根源就仍然是它本身。

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His case has become a source of contention between civil liberties activists and the government.

他的案子已变成了公民自由活动家们和政府之间的争论缘由。

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To what extent competition determines the composition of a community and the density of particular species has been the source of considerable controversy.

竞争对于一个群落的组成和特定物种的密度的决定程度有多大，一直是相当有争议的问题。

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And because this vital source of lending has frozen up, no financial recovery plan will be successful unless it helps restart securitization markets."

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It can be understood as a source of new-found authority, of the freedom of one who has been characteristically not free and can be received by a reading community in those terms.

这可以被理解为一种新建立的权威和，一个特性上不自由的人的自由的源头,同时也可以被看做在这些领域里的一个阅读区。

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For many investors in Asia, gold's role as a source of safety and value has been reinforced over the past year of economic uncertainty.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

Among the challenges is modifying sensors designed to detect the heat from an incoming warhead so they can spot the much-cooler satellite, which has no heat source and is warmed only by the sun's rays.

CNN: Attempt to shoot down spy satellite to cost up to $60 million

Mysterious and beautiful, the Moon has been a source of awe and inspiration to mankind for millennia.

BBC: What if you could mine the Moon?

Apart from various ways highlighted to build capacity and tools for the same, he also stressed upon going back to our Vedas which has been source of Science and Inventions of great scientists like Einstein.

UNESCO: Science Policy and Capacity-Building