When his court case was coming up, James promised to reform.

当他的案件即将被审理时，詹姆斯承诺要改过自新。

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In case public fire control facilities and equipage are insufficient or do not fit in with actual demand, efforts should be made on expansion, rebuilding, allocation and purchase or technical reform.

公共消防设施、消防装务不足或者不适应实际需要的，应当增建、改建、配置或者进行技术改造。

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Why don't he, in such a case, sell his horses, lethis house, turn off his servants, and make a thorough reform at once?

在这种情况下，他为什么不卖掉马，出租房子，辞退佣人，马上来个彻底的改过自新？

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President Obama went before the nation's largest organization of physicians to make the case for health care reform.

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Finally, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce viewed this as a tort reform case, protecting corporations from further expensive cases in U.S. courts.

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He would do better to get government lawyers first to reform their haphazard case-management and embark on jury reform only as a last resort.

ECONOMIST: Jury trials

The coalition has been far less straightforward, and less successful, when making the case for reform in other areas.

ECONOMIST: The Cameron government