In May 2009, Blackwater's prime contract was awarded to competitor Triple Canopy, but a downsized Blackwater remains armed in Iraq.

2009年5月，黑水公司的主要合同被授予它的竞争对手三蓬公司(Triple Canopy)，不过黑水公司仍然在伊拉克保有减员版的武装力量。

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Service in the armed forces gave many Americans a less xenophobic view of the world.

在武装部队的服役使得许多美国人有了较不排外的世界观。

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In July he issued a decree ordering all unofficial armed groups in the country to disband.

7月份，他颁布了一项法令，命令解散该国所有非官方武装团体。

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"It is a fact,unfortunately, that the word democracy has become a code word in recent years for regime change and maybe for armed intervention regime change, but at the end of the day, there is a core value that Americans have stood for, that we have to continue stand for, and we can't allow that as well to become a fundamental impediment to improving the relations we are talking about."

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It's a core of heavily armed infantrymen in a solid block.

是以重型装甲步兵为核心组成的坚固方阵

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He was responsible for writing the first justification for an armed rebellion against a legitimate monarch, the first to publish such a work in, essentially, all of Europe.

他是第一个为反对合法君主的武装叛乱,写辩护书的人，也是第一个在全欧洲将其发表的人。

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In Utah it's been legal for a dozen years for teachers to be armed in class.

CNN: Teacher talks armed student into giving up, police say

Legal scholars say the issue of whether people have a right to be armed in public is likely to win high court review at some point.

WSJ: High court weighs taking up new case on gun rights

The National Rifle Association, a powerful US lobby group, argues against more regulation, saying teachers in schools should be armed in order to better defend students if a shooting occurs.

BBC: Newtown shooting: Sandy Hook students back to school