We were in the invidious position of having to choose whether to break the law or risk lives.

我们处于左右为难的窘境，不知是要违法还是要拿生命冒险。

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Keep in mind that the law only requires your company to allow you to return to the same or a similar position. It does not require them to pay you during your leave.

记住法律只是要求公司准许你回到相同或类似的位置，并没有要求公司在你离开期间付你薪水。

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Your job is to maintain peace and law and order here, and make sure that everybody stays in his position, "the Presido said."

你的工作是维和平、法律和秩序，确保每一个人都要尽忠职守。

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The Magyar minority is bigger in Romania, but the authorities there are in no position to complain about the citizenship law: they issue passports plentifully to compatriots in Moldova.

ECONOMIST: Hungary and Slovakia

Kerr also pointed out that there's a conflict of interest when the executive branch, which oversees law enforcement in the state, is in a position to block laws that would limit the powers of law enforcement.

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California's employee-privacy protections would place firms in the "untenable position of having to violate either state law or their Finra obligations, " the group wrote in a letter to Mr. Brown.

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