For some countries, it is no exaggeration to describe the situation as an impending disaster; a disaster for health, for society, and most of all for national economies.

对某些国家而言，将这一情况形容为迫在眉睫的灾难绝非夸张；这是一场对健康、对社会，最重要的是对国家经济带来的灾难。

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For a Big Society fan, the woods come all but gift-wrapped with a bow.

对支持大社会的人来说，这片森林几乎就是个系了蝴蝶结的礼物。

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For all the present sensitivity over correctness, we seem to have lost our sense of shame as a society.

尽管目前人们对是非曲直很敏感，但作为一个社会整体，我们似乎已丧失了羞耻感。

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Former-President Bush spoke of wanting a democratic society to emerge in Afghanistan as an example for people all across the region.

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But although strong leadership from the top in all areas of society is now a guiding principle for the authorities, admonishments about cyber-censorship have been strangely slow in coming.

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And he will use his visit to Britain to further pursue this theme, questioning whether a secular society brings real freedom, or merely a free-for-all in which the strong are able to dictate the rules by which the weak will live.

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Issues like that we can ask what are the candidates' views on those, what kind of vision of society do they have and for Christians unrepentantly, do they have a view of the Christian society in this land and all these issues can be explored and if you make your vote based upon that as well as the political party they represent.

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