It would be the first time in human history that economic necessity has prevailed over military aggrandizement.

经济需要压过了军事扩张，这将是人类有史以来的第一次。

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Virtue, then, has prevailed.

然后，美德占了上风。

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Hitherto, pragmatism has prevailed and they have sided with the Turks.

到目前为止，实用主义盛行，他们站到了土耳其这边。

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At least two rockets fired from Lebanon crashed into northern Israel, breaking a calm along the border that has prevailed since January.

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Well according to one school of thought ; there isn't anything particularly revolutionary about monotheism; and the classical account of the rise of monotheism, that has prevailed for a very long time, runs as follows, and I have a little flow chart here to illustrate it for you.

曾经某个思想学派告诉我们,一神论其实没有什么独特的新颖之处;,而它却能飞速崛起，备受重视，盛行了很长一段时间，正如我下面要提到的，我这儿有一些图来帮助你们理解。

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While the political uncertainty has prevailed since the August 20 poll, the Taliban-led insurgency continues to undermine international efforts to bring stability to Afghanistan eight years after the U.S.-led coalition launched the anti-Taliban offensive.

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Perhaps more importantly, it defied the downward trend that has prevailed so far in 2012.

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And Geithner has prevailed with Obama arguing that deficits and debt are the biggest problem America faces.

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The structural motivation behind the flow to emerging markets has prevailed for a number of years now.

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