It is the Western rule to begin at the head of the horse.

它是西方人规则从马的头开始。

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While it has long been a practice in Asian countries, many people in Western countries have yet to embrace the no-shoes-in-the-house rule.

虽然这在亚洲国家早已成为一种约定俗成的事情，但在西方国家仍有许多人没有接受“在家里不穿鞋”的规则。

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"There was a time when they wouldn't do this, when the rule of law meant something," sighs a Western diplomat in Bangkok.

曼谷的西方外交家感慨道“曾经有段时间他们不会这样做，那段时间法律规则还有约束力。”

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Hoshyar Zebari, a senior member of Massoud Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party, which controls the north-western part of the self-rule area, believes that the Kurds have at last made some smart moves.

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Nearly two dozen states have adopted a form of the one-bite rule, most of them clustered in the western and south-central parts of the country.

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The appointment of Mr. Hamdallah means Palestinians are unlikely to head to elections any time soon, keeping Mr. Abbas in power as head of the Palestinian Authority, the Western-backed government that has a measure of self-rule over Palestinians in the West Bank.

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