With clients Wong has known for 10 or 15 years, he could say he was taking two days off to be interviewed by social services or spending the day in court for adoption proceedings.

对于相交10年或15年的客户，王会告诉他们，他要请两天假，接受社会服务人员的面谈，或者要去法院办理收养手续。

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Parties, whether or not Members of the Organization, shall be entitled to participate in the proceedings of the Maritime Safety Committee for the consideration and adoption of amendments.

缔约方，不论其是否为本组织会员，均有权参加海上安全委员会的审议和通过修正案的活动。

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The Kilshaws then drove with the girls' mother, to Little Rock, Arkansas, where they hired a lawyer and began adoption proceedings.

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The Capobiancos think the issue should be about whether the ICWA law can improperly block adoption proceedings voluntarily initiated by a non-Indian mother who had sole custody of her child, due to what the adoptive parents say is the Indian father's failure to establish a legal parent-child relationship under state law.

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