The act of state doctrine is one of the ancient and important theories in international law.

国家行为原则是国际法中一个古老而重大的理论问题。

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Therefore,to send troops to a state where federal officers had resigned such as South Carolina would be an act of war against the state.

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Consequentialist moral reasoning locates morality in the consequences of an act, in the state of the world that will result from the thing you do.

后果主义道德推理,认为是否道德取决于行为的后果，取决于你的行为对外界所造成的影响。

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It's the violence of this horrible act of self-sacrifice, this tragic act of self-sacrifice -- an act of self-sacrifice - intended obviously to preserve the state of virginity -- that grabs our attention and presumably grabbed Milton's.

正是这种可怖的自我牺牲行为的暴力，这种悲剧的自我牺牲--这种明显是,要保护童贞的自我牺牲的行为-,吸引了我们的注意力，大概也吸引了弥尔顿的注意力。

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"As long as this is a one-off act of the state helping the victims, it's not going to affect the economy in a major way, but it's also not a solution for future disasters, " said Georgy Stoev, from Industry Watch.

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However, if Congress passes the transportation pieces of the American Jobs Act, state departments of transportation across the country can finally begin long-deferred repairs on many of these aging bridges and put construction workers back on the job.

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Nor can we rule out effects of other features of the 1994 Crime Act or a host of state and local initiatives that took place simultaneously.

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