Often such projects are kept on the drawing board not by lack of money but by politics and planning.

通常这类项目驻足在计划阶段，不是因为缺乏资金，而是由于政见和规划。

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Money and Tory politics cascade through his family: perhaps the idyllic setting of his childhood helps to explain his avowed environmentalism.

他的家族殷实富足，支持托利党政策：或许他童年时家中田园般的环境就可以解释他公开承认的环保主义。

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Elected judges in the United States got a warning this week about money, politics and the law.

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The clearest sign of dissatisfaction with the old order is the regionwide backlash against money politics.

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Money politics became a bigger issue than ever in Taiwan's Legislative Yuan elections earlier this month.

CNN: A Year of Redefinition

There is also more than a whiff of old-fashioned money politics about the Dean campaign.

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