They could at least get a new, more palatable figurehead for international consumption and then shield Mr Bashir from the ICC.

至少，他们可以拥有一个新的、更容易被国际社会接受的傀儡领导，从而保护巴希尔先生免遭国际刑事法庭的的制裁。

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This decreases consumption of imports and protects domestic firms from international competition.

这将会减少进口消费并在国际竞争中保护国内企业。

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The International Energy Agency (IEA), a think-tank funded by power-hungry countries, estimates that consumption of coal will increase by 71% between 2004 and 2030.

据国际能源署(IEA)——能源稀缺国们筹建的一个智囊机构——估计，2004至2030年间煤炭的消耗将增长71%。

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Critics,including the Australian government, say the research argument is a cover for the sale and consumption of whale meat, which is banned under international regulations.

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Choi Jong-kun, an international relations professor at Seoul's Yonsei University, thinks the declaration that Pyongyang violated international law is mainly for the consumption of angry South Koreans.

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Critics,including the Australian and New Zealand governments, say such arguments are a cover for the sale and consumption of whale meat, which is banned under an international moratorium on commercial hunting.

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"You don't expect the income of the middle class in Africa to be the same as the United States, but it shouldn't be so overstretched that it may lose its meaning, " he adds, noting that the African middle class should define itself not only in relation to the continent but also in relation to international standards of consumption.

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Data from the World Bank's most recent and hugely comprehensive International Comparison Program study breaks global individual consumption into 11 buckets--from food and clothing to health care and recreation.

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Earlier, the 192 member states of the World Health Organisation voted unanimously to pass the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the first international treaty to clamp down on tobacco consumption.

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