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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This led to the first public movement to civilianize military law.

这导致了第一个使军事法文明化的公众运动。

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This is not NATO's first military operation.

这并非北约的首次军事行动。

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He urged the Pyongyang government to change from a "military first" approach to one of "people first".

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Keeping our military and using them when we have to, but not as our first instrument.

保存军事力量，不到非不得已绝不轻易动武。

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Earlier this year,the first female pilots ever to fly American military aircraft were finally recognized for their service.

VOA: special.2010.11.08

The military got first word of the American Airlines Flight 11 hijacking nine minutes before it hit the World Trade Center.

CNN: 9/11 recordings chronicle confusion, delay

If you do join the military and first work hard to be a good team member and then take on the responsibility of fighting and perhaps dying for the other members of your platoon, they will see that as far more important than anything else.

NPR: Capt. Rawlings Takes Questions from Sadr City

The tweet signaled the start of a still-ongoing military campaign and marked the first time a military operation was announced with a tweet.

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