The thought of war is too awful to contemplate.

战争太可怕了，真不敢去想。

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A generation that worked diligently to tame the threat of nuclear war finds itself driven toward a horizon more frightening to contemplate than the one it dreamed of avoiding.

为了消除核战威胁而不懈工作的一代人发现自身趋向于更为恐惧思考的视界，而不是梦想其避免的视界。

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As you contemplate the end of this war, can you say as Commander-in-Chief that the huge human and financial costs that this has entailed can be justified, given the fact that the Afghanistan that the world will leave behind is somewhat diminished from the visions of reconstruction and democracy that were kind of prevalent at the beginning of the war?

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Even if a new government in Egypt were to re-endorse the treaty, Israel's defence spending will probably rise, as its planners contemplate the now-less-hypothetical threat of a war in the south.

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And so it is that we believe, short of a declaration of war, there is nothing more serious for our elected representatives to contemplate than through the process of impeachment to undo the result of a national election and to remove the man chosen by the American people to be their president.

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