In Missouri, the governor tried hard to take the state out of the Union. He called a convention to decide the question.

在密苏里州，该州州长千方百计地想将该州脱离联邦，他召集了一个会议，讨论这一问题。

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The state, despite signing an international anti-smoking convention in 2004, still owns 50% of the world’s third-largest cigarette company, Japan Tobacco.

尽管在2004年签订了国际反吸烟协定，但日本国家仍然掌控着世界第三大烟草公司---日本烟草50%的股权。

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A heavy favorite from the start, he was on his way to the state convention that was to renominate him when his light plane crashed in a storm near Westfield, Mass.

他一开始就热门人选，但就在他赶往州大会的路上，他的轻型飞机在靠近马萨诸塞州韦斯特菲尔德处因遭遇风暴而失事，而本次大会上本来要重新提名他参选议员。

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Supporters of slavery wanted to organize a constitutional convention that could put Kansas into the Union as a slave state.

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Well, I think, as the convention, it would be very difficult to leave the government because nobody else is just living in the state of nature.

我认为，按照惯例来说，想要脱离政府会是十分困难的,因为没有其他人生活在自然状态下。

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Gist said South Carolina would call a state convention as soon as the election results were made official.

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In June he spoke to rave reviews at California's Reform Party state convention.

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Supporters worry that he might miss the Republican state convention on May 30th.

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Five weeks before the state convention, a poll released in a local newspaper showed me with 4 percent of the vote.

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