Patent agencies and patent agents shall accept supervision over their practice by the state, society and parties.

专利代理机构和专利代理人执业应当接受国家、社会和当事人的监督。

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Indeed, though the state exercises close control over society albeit much less than two decades ago people seem not to have noticed.

ECONOMIST: Democracy in China

Maybe, but it also suggests that many Chinese are prepared to seek a new relationship with a state that wants to maintain a cultural hold over society.

ECONOMIST: China

Then, a couple of kilometers down the road from NIDA's sheds, the Royal Agricultural Society Showgrounds were handed over to Rupert Murdoch's Fox Filmed Entertainment by way of a state government lease in 1996.

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