The sovereign holds total power over all the institutions of civilian and ecclesiastical life, holding sway over a kind of peaceable kingdom.

君主拥有绝对的权力,它高于所有的平民机构或是教会机构，支配着和平的国家。

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The plan now is to have about a thousand and nine hundred something civilian people on the ground in Afghnastan by New Years Day which is about three times of we had last year.

现在的计划是说我们将要派大概1900平民到阿富汗,在新年之前,这个数量是去年的三倍之多。

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