The power of the church is one theme all these writers return to.

教会的权力是所有这些作家回归的一个主题。

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This greatly limited the power of the church.

这极大地限制了教会的权力。

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The power of the church in national affairs has lessened.

教会对国事的影响力已减弱了。

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They said the church had a secret organization to take the lives and property of those who questioned the power of the church.

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But the new Presbyterian Party soon developed its own methods of employing state power to control and regulate the church.

但新的长老派很快就发展了自己的办法,那就是利用政府权力控制和管理教会。

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The new Presbyterian orthodoxy soon developed its own methods of employing state power to control, to regulate, and to manipulate the church.

这个新的长老派正统信仰很快,发展出了自己利用政府权力控制，管理和操纵教会的方法。

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The production, created for the Welsh National Opera, was abstract and minimalist: Johan Engels's design featured a semicircle of dark bleachers and a forest of tilted black crosses that appeared intermittently, representing trees or pillars, and serving as a reminder of the overwhelming power of the Catholic Church.

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Though it is more a product of tradition than design, it has turned into an efficient system for consolidating the power of the pope and the Church's other elites, he says.

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It cannot be disputed that the president used the power and structure of the Church.

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