Advanced US military capabilities have, it is generally agreed, substantially eroded the deterrent relationship that existed between the US and its nuclear competitors during the cold war.

人们普遍认为，美国先进的军事能力，实际上已经侵蚀了冷战时期美国及其核竞争国之间存在的核威慑关系。

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Financial services will always be a tug-of-war between two contradictory promises: “Your money is safe with us” and “We will earn you higher returns.”

金融服务永远在两大互相矛盾的承诺之间摇摆。 一是“你的钱放在我们那儿很安全”；二是“我们能给你带来更高的回报”。

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There is always a tug of war inside each of us between nature and nurture.

在我们每个人的内心，天性和后天教育之间永远在相互较量。

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This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final note stating that, unless we hear from them by 11 o'clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us.

BBC: Prime Minister Chamberlain declares war

During the Cold War, relations between the US and Soviet Union were eased when Cliburn won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958, at the age of 23.

BBC: Bush remembers Van Cliburn at memorial

"You know very well this is a pretext of a political war between President Basescu and me, a war each of us leads with their own weapons, " he said.

BBC: Romanian PM Victor Ponta rejects plagiarism claim