That is to say, when the rules governing authority have broken down in times of crisis, and that was certainly true in Hobbes' time, a time of civil war and crisis.

这就是说，当统治权力,在危机下崩溃时，这恰好就是霍布斯时代的情况，充满内战和危机的时代。

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That view was, perhaps, most evident in his plan in the 1980s to redevelop rundown East London by establishing a Development Corporation that, controversially, could overrule local authority planning rules.

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The Mayo decision gives the IRS broad authority to write rules favoring its own litigating position.

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The bill would give the FTC authority to write rules for personal-data gatherers.

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