"We have always offered this. If they were to help us help them, then the secretary-general would be in a position to go all out on the sanctions issue, humanitarian support, even reconstruction and development.

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It was the ideal embraced by priests and nuns, and it was the ideal to which all Christians theoretically at least were in a position to aspire to.

这是牧师和修女们所拥护的理想，这也是基督教徒们理论上,至少是理应渴望的理想。

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In particular, if the other candidate were to choose position 1, I would get a higher share of the vote choosing 2 than I would have done if I had chosen 3.

如果对手选择立场1,我选立场2会比选立场3,得到更多的票数

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