They justify villainy in the name of high ideals.

他们打着实现远大理想的幌子为他们的恶行开脱。

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And everyone assumed and I think can still justify that we are in the Middle east with our high ideals, at least partly, because we are afraid of being deprived the oil that runs our industries.

每个人都假设，我还是觉得，中东有非常远大的理想，至少一部分理想是远大的，因为我们害怕支撑我们，工业的石油被剥夺。

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High finance not only funded high art, but its money and movement helped to fuel the humanist ideals that inspired the Renaissance.

高级金融不但向高级艺术提供了资金，其金钱和流动也促进了激发文艺复兴的人文思想。

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I mean I do hope that the fact that I'm interested in in rock and roll isn't perceived by some, as it may well be, to sully the ideals of the Louise Center for the arts and these high-minded things.

我当然希望，我对摇滚的,喜爱，在一些人眼中，不会玷污,路易斯艺术中心这种高雅的理念。

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But for the UNHCR and other agencies that care for the displaced, this was only the latest of many cases where the high ideals of international law run up against the realities of power politics.

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In a statement on Tuesday, the Grand Orange Lodge said: "In keeping with the high ideals of the Orange Institution all members and supporters of the institution should use the eleventh of July to prepare for this event in a totally peaceful manner, " it said.

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Marshall was a loyal, churchgoing man, a Purple Heart recipient wounded in Iwo Jima during World War II and a son who tried mightily but could never live up to the high ideals of his socialite mother, according to letters friends submitted to the court.

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