These gas-sipping vehicles became a veritable symbol of the consumers' power to strike a blow against global warming.

那些耗油的汽车，就成为消费者声张权力、对抗全球暖化出击的真实目标。

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But even if Mr. Salazar gave the approval, opponents of Cape Wind wouldprobably continue to challenge it in court and the company would stillneed to strike a deal with a utility to buy the power.

然而，即使萨拉扎先生同意了，科德角风电的反对者可能还会继续在法庭上提出挑战，而且该公司还需要与买电的公用事业公司达成协议。

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The impact test of the pendulum is used to strike the notched specimens of the cantilever beam with a prescribed height, and the test of impact absorbing power when the specimen is broken.

艾氏冲击试验：用规定高度的摆锤对处于悬臂梁状态的缺口试样进行一次性打击，测量试样折断时冲击吸收功的试验。

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That means it is easier for planes with only two engines to strike a flock of birds and lose power in both engines.

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Godane,who came to power after the death of al-Shabab founder Aden Hashi Ayro in a U.S.missile strike in May 2008, is firmly committed to the idea of using al-Qaida-trained foreign fighters to help al-Shabab violently overthrow Somalia's U.N.-backed transitional government and establish an Islamic caliphate in Somalia.

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And, according to Professor Hyman, this also weakened the power of local union activists like shop stewards, and unions adopted a more "strategic" use of power, where strike were the last resort, not the first course of action.

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The first is that although the West is safe in the sense that the existential threat of invasion by a malevolent foreign power or a first strike by a nuclear-armed aggressor is now vanishingly small, the rise of jihadist terrorism has left people feeling vulnerable.

ECONOMIST: Weighing safety against liberty

Though many people vehemently disagree with particular decisions of the court, its legal power to strike down state or federal laws, to arbitrate disputes between the president and Congress, and between either of them and the states, remains unchallenged.

ECONOMIST: The politics of justice