Warlords retain their local power.

军阀保持在当地的势力。

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Local power holders - the gentry and army men - remained in place.

地方势力——乡绅和军人——的地位仍未改变。

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In a narrow sense, hotels expressed the local power of the commercial elite that built them.

狭义上，这些酒店代表了建造酒店的商业精英们在当地的势力和实力。

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So,smaller cultures lose their local language as the language of the culture in power becomes the stronger influence.

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A third law limited the power of major companies to gain control of local electric utility companies.

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But they quickly learned that they held political power only at the local level.

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Other companies have faced attacks by mobs, whipped up, many believe, by local power brokers.

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If it behaved responsibly, the world would naturally look to it as the local power.

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And he said the schemes were identifying barriers to local power which could be removed.

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