Some scholars argue that the concentration of water within the urban core of these sites provided a centralized source of political authority for Maya elites based largely on controlled water access.

一些学者认为，集中在这些地点的城市核心区的水资源为玛雅精英提供了一个集中的政治权力来源，而这些权力主要是基于对水资源的控制。

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He intends to reduce the sprawl of the national curriculum, limiting it to certain core subjects, and to strengthen the authority of teachers to discipline badly behaved pupils.

他打算以减少国家课程的扩大，限制在一定的核心课程上，并加强教师对于处罚严重违纪学生的权威。

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Simon (1947) notes that the core of many of the more important social institutions consists of a system of authority, and a set of sanctions for enforcing the authority relationship.

Simon(1947)指出很多更重要的社会制度的核心都包括了一种权威体系，以及一系列用来加强这种权威关系的约束。

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In a letter to the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (Mopac), the monitoring officer for the Greater London Authority, Ed Williams, said the female staff member said she considered "the core elements" of what had been reported in the media to be "true" and "there was contact".

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On Dexia, it was only on July 15 that the European Banking Authority disclosed that this retail and public-sector finance bank would have a ratio of core Tier One capital to assets of 10.4%, even after incurring notional losses from harsh simulated financial and economic conditions.

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