The Supreme Court traditionally opens its annual term on the first Monday in October and usually renders its final decisions of the term by the following July.

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They show these as some of the first stages and then intermediate changes they depict it as this, and then the final one is this.

把这定义为第一阶段,这是中间阶段,再是最终阶段

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The Black Satellites have battled through some adversity to reach the final, edging South Africa in extra time in the first elimination match, and surviving a pair of exciting 3-2 games that came down to the wire in the quarter and semifinals.

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