With Cuicuilco eliminated as a potential rival, any one of a number of relatively modest towns might have emerged as a leading economic and political power in Central Mexico.

随着 Cuicuilco 作为一个潜在的竞争对手被淘汰，一些相对不太大的城镇中，任何一个都有可能成为墨西哥中部主要的经济和政治力量。

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The grand mediocrity of today—everyone being the same in survival and number of offspring—means that natural selection has lost 80% of its power in upper-middle-class India compared to the tribes.

当今人与人在很大程度上的平等——即面对自然淘汰法则人人机会均等，并且连子嗣的数目都一样——意味着和在印度土著部落中的情况相比，印度中上层阶级中已丧失了80%的自然选择中的优势。

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Congress was designed so that minorities can wield power well out of proportion to their number if they stick together.

国会就是这样设计的，如果少数派们联合起来，他们能够行使大于他们人数比例的权力。

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"The power structure in Kandahar in the eyes of the people of Kandahar is the problem number one, and the Taliban and al-Qaida number two."

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This explains, in part, the power of number three.

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The stakes for Erox are based on the power of the number of Tweets and the amount of fans its Facebook page can garner.

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Applications in both the public and private spheres will use the power of the number to provide services to the individual that were beyond their reach in the past.

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