A BBC Washington correspondent says the stage is now set for a confrontation with the White House.

一名 BBC 驻华盛顿记者说，现在已经为与白宫的对抗做好了准备。

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She wanted to avoid another confrontation with her father.

她想避免和父亲再次发生冲突。

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The commission remains so weak that it will continue to avoid confrontation with governments.

该委员会依然如此弱小以致它将继续避免和各政府的冲突。

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President Obama has restricted the conditions under which the United States would consider using nuclear weapons, but stipulated that the limitations do not apply to any potential confrontation with Iran or North Korea.

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Now, on Monday you're going to hear about this novel's confrontation with the idea that art could be saving, that it could somehow be redemptive, but here I think is a hint that it's something that the novel simply laughs at hollowly.

星期一我们将会将到这部小说对,艺术已经被拯救，某种程度已经被救赎这个,观点的对质，但我想提示大家一下,那只是这部小说空洞嘲笑的观点。

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State Department Acting Spokesman Robert Wood said Clinton,in her calls to the Pakistani leadership on Saturday, urged a non-violent settlement of the confrontation with the opposition and said that there should be no impediments to peaceful, democratic assembly.

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He is also trying to avoid mud-slinging in the primary, before November's confrontation with Mr Davis.

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Kosovo's administration is reluctant to be drawn into an all-out confrontation with the Albanians.

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Perhaps it's good politics for a liberal Democrat to force a confrontation with Hannity.

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