Too many of his small force would be lost if he tried to fire these guns.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

But you might say just as Machiavelli broke with the dominant model of Christian universalism, so too did he reject the ancient model of the small, autonomous republican state.

但各位也可读到,当马奇亚维利打破,处于优势之基督普遍主义模式的同时，他也拒绝了,古代模式的，小型自治共和国。

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He says studies on the effectiveness of nurse practitioners have been too small to be conclusive.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14