The U.N.'s top diplomat in Iraq,Ad Melkert, echoed the council's call, saying the delays are contributing to uncertainty and creating conditions that could be exploited by elements opposed to the country's democratic transition.

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Making use of only our own reasoning, as opposed to whatever answers we might be given by divine revealed authority.

只用你自己的推测，与所有答案截然相反,我们可能被授予神圣的权威。

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She tried to study it and tried to figure out how it was that life insurance became more and more important over that century One of her conclusions was that life insurance seemed to be opposed quite a bit by women, nineteenth century women.

她试着研究这一现象,并试图揭示,在当时寿险的重要性,是如何获得人们的认可的,她的一项研究结论表明,女性似乎对寿险非常抵触,我是指19世纪的女性

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