That was how the European Commission presented this week's ruling by European judges in favour of its multi-million euro fine on Microsoft for bullying competitors.

九月下旬，欧洲委员会公布了由欧洲法官执行的裁决，即赞同就微软公司欺凌弱小同行一案采取数百万的罚款。

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Perhaps not, judging by its recent vote in favour of the Libyan no-fly zone.

按此次对利比亚禁飞区的赞成票判断或许不会。

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Dr Packard's model gets round this by abandoning simple logarithmic transformation in favour of a more complicated, so-called nonlinear model.

通过舍弃简单的对数转换进而采用更复杂的非线性模型，帕卡德博士的模型解决了这个问题。

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The concept of civic duty has been used by those in favour of creating a written constitution for the UK - the argument being that if you know what's expected of you by society, you're more likely to do it.

BBC: Is there such a thing as civic duty? And do we feel it?

"The process of opening up much-needed state schools is being impaired by a lack of capital funding and in some cases by the presumption in favour of free schools and academies, " he said.

BBC: Education & Family

Contributions by business in favour of conservative candidates and causes would only level the playing field.

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