His use of the term refers to an institutional exercise of power and the territory over which that power is exercised.

他对这个术语的使用涉及到一个对权力的制度化运用以及权力被应用的疆域。

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It is because of this controlling power of character in life that we often see men exercise an amount of influence apparently out of all proportion to their intellectual endowments.

品格在生活中具有决定性作用。因此我们经常会发现，人类凭据其品格所展现出的影响力，远非其天赋所产生的影响力可比。

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He was playing the role of an enemy scout during an exercise that was meant to evaluate the weapon, and got blasted at full power for four seconds.

在那次武器评估演习中，这名飞行员扮演敌方侦察兵的角色，受到最大功率灼伤，持续时间四秒钟。

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So Klawans argues, and I quote, that "sacrifice involves in part the controlled exercise of complete power over an animal's life and death."

因此克洛文认为，“献祭在某种程度上是一种,掌握动物生死的权力象征“

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The Court majority rejected the mandate as an exercise of Commerce Clause power.

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The individual mandate, by contrast, vests Congress with the extraordinary ability to create the necessary predicate to the exercise of an enumerated power and draw within its regulatory scope those who would otherwise be outside of it.

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We have never held that any exaction imposed for violation of the law is an exercise of Congress' taxing power even when the statute calls it a tax, much less when (as here) the statute repeatedly calls it a penalty.

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