The Kikuyu highlands encircling the glaciers of Mount Kenya increasingly feel like a state within a state.

环绕肯尼亚山冰河的基库尤高地看起来越来越像是一个国中之国。

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The East India Company was a microcosm of this uncertainty-half military, half commercial, a state within a state.

东印度公司就是这种不确定性的缩影- - -半军事半商业，可谓国家中的国家。

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Nor is Airbus (still 20% owned by BAE Systems, a British firm, which plans to sell its stake to EADS) fully integrated into the parent company: it is like a state within a state.

空中客车也没有完全的归于其母公司(英国企业BAE系统仍拥有20%的股份，正计划将股份售给EADS)，就像国中有国一样。

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you still have the problem of an armed group, mainly Hezbollah, that runs a separate foreign policy and that has carefully built a state within a state for the last thirty years now.

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Everyone has potentially a licenser within himself, and so there's no need - there's no logical need for a state licenser.

每个人内在都有一个控制者，所以,没有必要有一个政府的控制者了。

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It was spoken on the Siletz reservation, where the tribe lives on a protected area of land within the state of Oregon.

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The East India Company was a microcosm of this uncertainty half military, half commercial, a state within a state.

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But Hezbollah, quote, "as a resistance organization, " unquote, was allowed to keep its arms and became a state within a state.

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The problem is the Indonesian army, an army that has become a state within a state, with enormous privileges, political power and economic power.

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