The foreign powers began to negotiate with China on paying for damages.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

Aristotle's distinction seems to be not only empirical again based on the factual distribution of powers.

亚里士多德的区别似乎,不只是根据经验的，或说,根据事实的权力分配。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

to earn his favor and perhaps his protection, But even that god will have limited powers and abilities and may in fact be defeated or may turn on his devotees.

来赢利他的青睐或者是保护，但纵然是上帝，权力和能力也是有限的,事实上，他也许会被打败，或者发动他的崇拜者。

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On Wednesday,diplomats from six major powers met in Germany.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

But I think Socrates means more than that, more than simply he wishes to rely on the powers of private individual judgment.

但我认为苏格拉底所指更多，他不只是希望,依靠个人判断的能力而已。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Ann Powers is an expert on viruses.

VOA: special.2009.04.13

Any belief is heresy if you haven't managed to determine that belief for yourself, if you haven't managed to determine that belief on the basis of your own conscience or through the powers of your own faculty of reason.

任何信念都是异教如果你不能自主决定那个真理,如果你不能决定这个信念,在自己的良心基础上或者是通过自己的推理能力。

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A foundling to start with,he would flourish later on as his powers waxed and his worth was proved, In the end each clan on the outlying coasts beyond the whale-road had to yield to him and begin to pay tribute.That was one good king.

VOA: special.2011.01.05

And Moses admonishes the Israelites not to suppose that their inheritance of the land of Canaan is due to their own powers, or on account of any righteousness or virtue that they possess.

摩西警告以色列人不要想当然地认为,他们继承迦南之地是凭借了自己的力量，或者视之为他们所拥有的正义和美德。

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The results of the November Congressional elections,and the fate of Mr.Obama's presidency, may once again hinge on his powers of persuasion.

VOA: standard.2009.12.15

And Turkey acts as a buffer on Iran's border from the encroachment of Western NATO powers and to some extent Israel.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

But he stressed this did not mean Tehran would be dependent on foreign powers,adding, "we will definitely secure our needs" for fuel.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

Mr.Ahmadinejad later added that his country is willing to resume nuclear talks with the West next month if world powers are allowed to express their view on Israel's alleged nuclear arsenal.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

Salem also thinks that the recent improvement of relations between the United States and regional powers, as well as relations among those regional powers, should impact positively on Iraq's geo-political situation.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

American Coach Wilmer Cabrera laments that the Nigerians have never gotten behind his team in their four matches, as the Americans took on popular international powers Spain and Italy, and African side,Malawi.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

She urged the Tehran government to give a definitive answer to an offer by major powers to further process Iranian enriched uranium outside that country to resupply a Tehran reactor, running low on fuel, that produces isotopes for medical purposes.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

But both Clinton and Lavrov, in comments after their second full-scale meeting since March, say the problems will not hamper broader cooperation between the two powers including their effort to put further curbs on the world's largest nuclear arsenals.

VOA: standard.2009.05.07

Clinton's India visit, which began late Friday in Mumbai, has been filled with reminders of the Pakistani-based terrorist attacks on that city last November that killed 166 people and set back relations between the two South Asian powers.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20