Should enemies strike our country, they would be attempting to shift our attention with panic and weaken our morale with fear.

敌人如果对我国发动袭击，他们就是妄图以制造惊慌来转移我们的注意力，以恐惧来削弱我们的斗志。

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It was introduced in 1986--ostensibly to avert a strike by dock workers over the shift to containerisation.

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We don't have that on our pianos, where even with the shift the hammers still strike two strings.

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Eight months later came the general strike, which also failed to shift him.

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