The United States maintains that the self-described satellite launch would violate U.N.Security Council Resolution 1718, which bans North Korean nuclear weapons and ballistic missile tests, and was approved after Pyongyang's 2006 nuclear test.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

He repeatedly maintains that the path he has taken is not of his own choosing but the result of a divine command.

他仍不断地强调,自己所走的路子,并非他自己的选择,而是天赐的结果。

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At one time in the book or at one point he maintains that a person cannot be made to accuse themselves without the assurance of pardon.

他在书中辩护道,除非一个人知道自己会被赦免而主动认罪,否则是不能轻易强逼他认罪的。

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Tbilisi says Moscow maintains a position that it has the right to first agree to any action another country wants to take in former-Soviet states such as Georgia.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

That would be tantamount to creating divine enemies, immortal enemies So God must maintain the upper hand in his struggle with these humans who have learned to defy him. And he maintains the upper hand in this, the fact that they eventually must die.

因为，这相当于创造了一个，旗鼓相当，永生的敌人,所以，上帝在与，这些学会反抗他的人类争斗时,占了上峰，利用他的优势,决定了人类必将死亡的命运。

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Orthodoxy maintains the traditions that we believe came from Mount Sinai, that God gives to Moses or people observing Jews, Traditional Jews, Orthodox Jews We keep laws, Oral Torah and within the old tradition.

正统派恪守传统,我们相信这些传统来自于西奈山，在那里上帝将这些传授给摩西和,遵从的犹太教徒，传统犹太教徒，犹太教正统派教徒,我们按照古老的传统遵守法律，口头教律。

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And, in a similar point, he maintains that punishment can never be used as an instrument of revenge but only for what he calls the correction or what we would call the rehabilitation of the offender.

同时他还认为,法律上的惩罚是不能作为复仇的工具,而当作为纠正罪犯过错的工具,即我们今天叫的,对罪犯进行改造。

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Rather he maintains as he puts it near the end of the defense speech that the examined life is alone worth living.

相反地，他维持辩护,快终结时的论点,受检视的人生孤独但有活着的价值。

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