The disease was controlled by the simple expedient of not allowing anyone to leave the city.

通过禁止任何人出城的简单应急办法使疾病得到了控制。

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Not allowing recovery time.

不给自己留出恢复的时间。

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If it refuses to burn, then the presence of water is not allowing the wick to burn.

如果不能点燃，那就是有水分使之不能被点燃。

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Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohona says that the Tamil Tigers are deliberately not allowing civilians to leave the war zone and are using them as a buffer against attacks by the military.

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and in not allowing citizens to choose when to take their own life.

坚决不允许公民自主选择结束生命。

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Yeah,not so much,but if you think about it--so it's not that--if you--it's not that we're allowing even more space here.

是的，就这么多变化了，但是你想想不仅仅是这些,我们的时间不允许让这两个音离的更远了。

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He said not allowing people to exercise their skills while visiting the island was ludicrous.

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Not allowing countries to withdraw from the NPT - something North Korea has done recently.

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Despite the win, Titmuss is not allowing himself or his team to get carried away.

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