They said their decision would include a statement that Congress did have power over slavery in the territories.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

God created a good world, But humans in the exercise of their moral autonomy, They have the power to corrupt the good.

上帝创作了一个美好的世界，但人类掌控自己的道德，他们有能力腐蚀美好事物。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And this is very important, because the Romans, as their power grew in the East, they simply moved increasingly into the eastern Mediterranean and they adopted the whole Greek system, the Greek world, and they didn't even try to make it non-Greek.

这点非常重要，因为随着罗马人的势力在东方日渐壮大，他们不断朝地中海东部推进,并采取了全套希腊系统，希腊世界，甚至没有作出任何非希腊式的改变。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Officials in Washington recently lost a ruling over their power to enforce competition on the Internet.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

That there's no situation that would allow human beings to take the idea of fate or the other people's lives in their own hands, that we don't have that kind of power.

世上没有任何情况允许,人类来主宰别人的命运，或决断他人的生死，我们没有那样的权力。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

These Taos Indians live in the ancient adobe rooms as their ancestors did centuries ago -- without any running water or electric power for lights.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

He wants to deprive poets of their power to enchant, and something Socrates admits in the tenth book of the Republic, to which he himself has been highly susceptible to the enchantment of the poets.

他想剥去诗人使人着迷的力量，可苏格拉底,也在《理想国》的十册中承认，他个人,对诗人的魅力抵抗力很弱。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"What the youth of America and their observing elders saw at Bethel was the potential power of a generation that in countless disturbing ways has rejected the traditional values and goals of the U.S.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

If justice is truly in the interests of the stronger, doesn't that require some kind of knowledge, some kind of reflection on the part of those in power ? to know what is really and truly in their interest?

如果正义真是强者的利益，那难道不需要某些知识，或说以握权者的角度,反思以了解,什么才是对他们真正有利的吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

They must count everyone in the equation of power, he stressed,and allow the people to determine their own destiny.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

Burma's military rulers cite ongoing fighting with ethnic insurgent groups in the country to partly justify their continued grip on power.

VOA: standard.2009.06.19

He agreed to postpone earlier elections in exchange for a power-sharing deal that saw his political opponents drop their electoral boycott.

VOA: standard.2009.07.19

And for decades, whenever we have tried to reform the system, the insurance companies have done everything in their considerable power to stop us,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

The rebels began their guerilla campaign for a separate Tamil homeland in 1983, and at the height of their power they controlled vast swathes of territory.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

However it was the Communists' subsequent failure to secure election of their presidential candidate that prompted a new election in July which brought the pro-western coalition to power.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

In 2009,Russians marked 300 years since their country defeated Sweden in the decisive Battle of Poltava, in which Russia replaced that Scandinavian country as the great power of Northern Europe.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25