Gates told Asian defense officials they were all familiar with North Korea's tactic of creating a crisis and then demanding payment to end the crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

Because the Bank of England could then demand all the it could start accumulating notes from some issuing bank and then demand payment in gold.

因为英格兰银行那时可以,要求所有的，它可以开始从一些纸币发行银行,收集些发行的纸币之后再要求以金子的形式偿还。

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If you can afford the mortgage payment, then you're all set.

如果你能负担起还款就可以安心了

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