Israel says its three-week assault on the Gaza Strip was an act of legitimate self-defense in response to years of Palestinian rocket attacks.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

That is to say, it manifests its self-sufficiency.

换句话说，就是事物显示自我的方式。

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And there's a self-consciousness about the temporal strangeness of this poem that leads, I think, to its crisis moment. Look at stanza sixteen.

他自己也意识到,诗歌暂时性的古怪会导致，危机的到来，看第六段。

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Republicans on the committee wanted stronger language, which they inserted in a Republican alternative to the main legislation,regarding U.S.support for Israel and its missile self-defense projects.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

Well after that, the bond price went up because people saw that as a sign that the company was tightening its belt and doing things right to have money to pay off the bondholders; so it was self-interested, I suppose--maybe you can ask him about this.

在这之后,债券的价格升高了,因为人们认为降低红利是一个信号,说明公司开始紧缩开支走向正轨,并且去偿付债券持有人,莱德利夫通过这种做法达到利己的目的,我想你们可以就此事向莱德利夫提问

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He dismissed as "biased and unjust" a U.N.Human Rights Council report that accused Israel of war crimes during its December Gaza offensive, saying his country was acting in self-defense against militant rocket fire.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

It's as if Nabokov allows us to see the mask of literature, to actually see it there palpably doing its work, so we can become self-aware of how we respond.

就好像Naboko让我们看到了文学的面具，让我们看到了它的功能，所以我们对自己的回应有感知了。

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Besides urging the Obama administration to oppose any further consideration of the Goldstone report in multi-lateral forums, or measures stemming from it, the resolution also reaffirms support for Israel's security and right to self-defense, and its right to defend its citizens from violent militant groups and their state sponsors.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

The poem seems unusually self-conscious about the role that its similes play.

这首诗看起来不同于往常地,对明喻在其中扮演的角色有所自知。

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