Mr.Obama is said to have declared that the United States and Cuba are "on a path of change", while reminding his fellow heads of state that the democratic process that brought them into office does not exist in Cuba.

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If you have a quantity which is constant over any closed path, that quantity is a thermodynamics state function.

如果有一个物理量,对任何闭合回路积分是常数，这个物理量就是一个热力学态函数。

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All right, so I need to tell you the path, when I go from one state to the other.

好，当我从一个状态过渡到另一个状态时，我需要告诉你们路径。

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It is actually a tragedy that Japanese society took the Bismarckian path of state welfare.

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While construction of some segments of the proposed 1, 700-mile pipeline has not been approved, the Texas government and courts have cleared its path through that state.

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Third, the revisions eliminated a path for the state to allow more online options for students, by not permitting the state to certify additional providers outside of the Utah Electronic High School as well as district and chartered providers.

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