The psychological controls were built on fear and punishment—on the absolute certainty that anyone or anything that threatened the authority of Rome would be utterly destroyed.

心理控制建立在恐惧和惩罚的基础之上——任何对罗马统治权威造成威胁的人或者事物都将被彻底摧毁，这是绝对肯定的。

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Understanding that the foundation for remaining faithful is not be based on a fear of hurting her, it's based on the absolute fact that I want to be faithful because she is the one I want to be with.

知道保持忠诚的基础不是建立在担心伤害她的基础上，而是建立在我想忠诚的事实上，因为她是我唯一想呆在一起的人。

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Brian Murray, senior counsel, told seven judges hearing the appeal in Dublin on Wednesday that his client was being denied what she seeks for fear that without an absolute ban on assisted suicide there could be more relaxed practices by doctors.

BBC: Marie Fleming and Tom Curran

Part of the fear that drives investors to products such as variable annuities, equity-indexed annuities, and the false promises of active management (including absolute return funds) is the misplaced fear of the recent lost decade in the performance of stocks.

FORBES: A Lost Decade? Not The Case For All Investors

Moved by a combination of reason and fear, Hobbes believed, human beings will contract with each other to create a sovereign - an absolute ruler who will prevent any slide into anarchy.

BBC: A Point of View: A time when violence is normal