The Saudi authorities have made agricultural development a central plank of policy to make the country less dependent on imports.

沙特阿拉伯当局已经将农业发展作为其政策的核心纲领，以减少该国对进口的依赖。

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The process of establishing a literary canon is seen by some as, in part, an attempt by certain scholars to make their own labors central and to relegate the work of others to marginal status.

在某些人看来，确立文学经典的过程，在某种程度上是某些学者把自己的工作放在中心位置，而把别人的工作放在次要地位的一种尝试。

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Inside this appliance are routing scripts that communicate with the central rule repository to make decisions.

此设备中包含与中央规则存储库通信以做出决策的路由脚本。

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Denis Hayes said lawmakers in Washington have repeatedly failed to make the environment a central issue.

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Now we need to take in other things that are also articulate human rights but make them more central: rights within marriage.

现在我们需要把一些其他的事物,也归类到人权范围之内,而且要给予更多的关注：,比如说，婚内权利。

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What Paulson wants to do is make that official that the Fed is no longer just a central bank; it's a market stability regulator.

鲍尔森想做的就是使各级政府,以及联邦政府不再单单是个中央银行;,而是市场稳定的监控者。

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But in stock markets and (especially) the market for government debt, investors seem to be counting on the European Central Bank to make everything come good in the end, whatever happens to the domestic economy in the meantime, and whatever the popular pressure on governments to change course.

BBC: Solving the puzzle of rising markets

The Obama administration has proposed a central clearinghouse to make trading in credit default swaps, currently privately negotiated, more transparent.

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In a nutshell, they want the central bank to make more money available at longer maturities and against a wider range of collateral.

ECONOMIST: Credit squeeze