It did say,however, that any state wishing to return to the Union could do so without losing any of its constitutional rights.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

So strong and far reaching are these rights that they raise the question of what, if anything, the state may do.

这些权利如此强大，如此深远,以至引发一个问题，如果有的话，政府可以做什么。

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So these are the rights we have in the state of nature before there is any government.

这些就是我们在政府产生前,自然状态下拥有的权利。

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In nineteen sixty, Alabama State College expelled six students who took part in a civil rights demonstration.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

That is to lose their prerogatives, their rights to an absolute state.

那就是失去他们的特权,在一个绝对统治里所拥有的权力

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"Every state and territory must decide for itself what these rights will be.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

Most Greek states, just as they never moved beyond the hoplite style of fighting, never go beyond the oligarchical style of constitution which gives only hoplites political rights in the state.

大多数希腊城邦,从未超越过步兵方阵的作战方式,也从未超越过寡头统治的政体,只有在这样的政体下,步兵才有政治权利

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It said no state could limit the rights of these citizens.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

The libertarian says nobody else is harmed,nobody else's rights are violated, so the state should get out of the business entirely of trying to promote virtue or to enact morals legislation.

自由主义者认为,其他人没有因此受到伤害，也没被侵权，所以政府不应该插手此事,不该试图立法弘扬道德。

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And he said the president as well as he could would protect the political rights promised to all people by the Constitution of the United States and the state constitutions.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

In order, finally, to see whether Locke is an ally or potentially a critic of the libertarian idea of the state, We have to ask what becomes of our natural rights once we enter into society.

为了最终搞清洛克到底是,自由主义的盟友还是潜在的批评者，就得弄清，一旦进入社会，自然权利将有何变化。

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"Every time Americans debate the problem of states' rights, the relationship of federal power to state power -- which we are indeed having a roiling debate again -- and every time we debate not only race relations, but the very idea of what it means to be an American, multi-racial,greatly diverse society, we are debating the direct legacies of the Civil War."

VOA: special.2011.04.09

So, what starts out as a seemingly benign state of nature where everyone is free and yet where there is a law and the law respects people's rights, and those rights are so powerful that they're unalienable.

乍一看自然状态是十分良善的,人人皆自由，但还有自然法,自然法尊重人们的权利，而这些权利是如此强大，它们是不可剥夺的。

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Dozens of MDC and human rights activists have been arrested in recent months on charges of plotting to overthrow the state.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

Later,Clinton told an audience of Moscow State University students that attacks on journalists and human-rights defenders are a threat to progress.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

"And,we ended up being involved in state-building and counter-narcotics and human rights and nation development, which actually took the focus away from the main priority."

VOA: standard.2009.08.02

In his first appearance before the UN Human Rights Council representing the United States, U.S.Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner called the report deeply flawed.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

A US state department report has called on Sri Lanka to investigate alleged rights abuses in the closing stages of the conflict, and punish those responsible.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

The 74-year-old human rights activist in many ways personified the Turkish secular state.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

President Obama has recently faced additional criticism after the State Department denied funding to some organizations with projects supporting civil society, rule of law and human rights monitoring efforts in Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

He was referring to a resolution by the U.N.Human Rights Council last week which approved the Goldstone Report, accusing the Jewish state of war crimes during the Gaza conflict last December and January.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

"We struggle for independence of the judiciary in Pakistan and real democracy in Pakistan, and economic development and a modern state that can give human rights and civil rights and economic stability to Pakistan,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

women making up more than half of the U.S.population while occupying only 17 percent of the seats in U.S Congress, and constituting less than three percent of Fortune 500 company chief executive officers (SPEAKING) Madeleine Albright, who served as Secretary of State during the Clinton administration, pointed to the challenges women still face globally in achieving the same basic rights and dignity as men.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

"The draft resolution is nothing more than a document of political conspiracy of hostile forces, to put the veil of a unanimous message of the international community on the U.S.-led human rights campaign against the DPRK in a bid to deny and obliterate the state and social system of the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.20