A source of anger for many lawmakers at the hearing was a U.S.government contract for a so-called "virtual fence" monitoring system along the nearly 3200-kilometer U.S.-Mexico border.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

That remains not only the fundamental question for Hobbes, but for the entire, at least for the entire social contract tradition that he helped to establish.

这已不仅仅停留在,霍布斯的基本问题上，从整体来说，至少是从霍布斯帮助建立的,整个社会契约的传统上。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Well, one thing that goes wrong is that suppose Coke and Pepsi were able to either to write a contract or whatever to sustain joint monopoly output at this high price, this price which is actually producing positive profits in the industry it is going to turn out, therefore the price is going to be above costs.

我来说吧,问题出在这里了,假设可口可乐和百事达成了协议,不管签的是协议还是合同,只要能通过协约维持垄断产出,通过制定高价来达到正的利润就行,这样价格是高于成本的

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She both loved and respected Horne, who was the first African American to land a major Hollywood contract, at a time when blacks were cast only in subservient roles.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15