At that the city fathers, alarmed about threats to property, formed a Committee of Safety and called out the militia.

到这个时候，那些“父母官”已感到人民的生命财产受到严重威胁，于是成立安全委员会，并搬来了民兵，这才解了针织厂的围。

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Some of the fathers have been primary caregivers to their sons, while others have felt the pain of seeing their offspring grow up in a distant city because of divorce.

有些父亲一直对儿子百般呵护，而另外一些因为离婚 ，不能看到儿子在自己身边长大，非常痛苦。

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Hell, Whitey Bulger would have been caught years earlier if the city fathers of Santa Monica had built a database of all its citizens and then sampled the effluence coming through its sewage treatment plant.

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Begun in 2008 as a weekly meet-up group for a small number of stay-at-home fathers in New York City, membership is currently pegged at 380.

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