They wish to limit the power of the State.

他们希望限制政府权力。

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They can do a bit of damage but are not really capable of much up against the coercive power of the state.

他们可以造成的影响很小，因此没有能力对抗强制性的规定。

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Like any cartel, it exists to protect its members from market retribution, and only the police power of the state can make us shoulder that burden.

就像其他的卡特尔一样，它存在的理由就是保护它的成员免受市场的惩罚，这时只有国家的警察力量才能强迫我们承受这样的负担。

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Democrats charged that the real purpose of the law was to keep radical Republican state governments in power.

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But the new Presbyterian Party soon developed its own methods of employing state power to control and regulate the church.

但新的长老派很快就发展了自己的办法,那就是利用政府权力控制和管理教会。

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Let me talk for a while about some of the formal features of Hobbes' sovereign power, of the Hobbesian state.

接下来我要说说,霍布斯关于君主权力和他理想下的国家',应当具有的一些特征。

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One difference is that governments have the power of the state, they can use violence.

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Egypt's courts are emerging as the only serious check to the huge power of the state.

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The coercive power of the state to violate individual rights is, on this issue, prohibited.

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