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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And the SEC will ensure that shareholders have more power in corporate elections, so that investors and pension holders have a stronger voice in determining what happens with their life savings.

证券交易委员会将确保股东在公司选举上有更多权力，以便投资者和养老金持有人对如何处置自己的毕生积蓄有更多发言权。

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In many places there is a problem over intellectual property because of an imbalance of power between copyright and patent holders on the one hand, and the public on the other.

在很多地方，知识产权都是个老大难问题，原因就是版权和专利权所有人和公众之间权限的失衡。

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Helping the powerful safely escape this perilous aspect of power is not only in the interest of power holders, but is also in the interest of all who are daily impacted by their decisions.

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But ISPs and privacy advocates say the DCMA is too wide-ranging, providing too much power to copyright holders at the expense of internet users.

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Omega sued Costco for selling its watches for prices below suggested retail, citing a tiny Omega logo on the goods that it said gave it the copyright holders power to control how creative works are distributed.

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