When the anthem had been played, the Congress began.

奏完国歌后，大会开始。

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But Congress did not consider the proposal when it began debating a new tariff bill.

然而，国会在开始讨论新一项关税法案时并没有考虑委员会的建议。

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I began my talk by saying that I was proud to be here today to represent the World Bank’s decade-long support to the China Mining Congress.

我在开头时说，我今天出席大会代表了世界银行对中国矿业大会长达十年的支持，我为此感到自豪。

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But Congress did not consider the proposal when it began debating a new tariff bill.

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After Congress provided the money, the General Dynamics company began building Nautilus in Groton,Connecticut.

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Before Congress began its debate, the president discovered a cancer in his mouth.

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Obsessive officials have made sure that nothing spoils the historic event, so the October results, announced just after the Congress began, had to be good.

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In the case of the Iraq war, by the time Congress began to take a more active role and summoned the now infamous National Intelligence Estimate, they were not in a position to function as a "balance" to the executive branch and "check" that branch's characterization of Hussein as an imminent threat.

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In 1996 the Republican-controlled Congress began forbidding the NIH to use funds for research in embryonic stem cells.

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