There are increasing signs that Mr Obama is deeply discomfited by the war that he had declared in his election campaign to be a "war of necessity".

越来越多的迹象显示，奥巴马在竞选期间宣称的这场“必要之战”已使他深感为难。

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The asthma our society is now suffering from is a natural continuation of the war that intellectual arrogance once declared on the story, on history, and thus on life itself.

我们的社会现在正在忍受着的这种“哮喘”，是那些自命通晓了智慧的人与故事，历史，和生活本身挑起的一场战争的自然延续。

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"The blue sky is my first artwork," he declared, neatly summing up his ambitions to breach the ordinary boundaries of art; no mean feat in post-war Europe.

他曾宣布，“蓝天是我的第一个作品，”干净利落地总结了他试图突破艺术的寻常界限的雄心；这在战后欧洲是了不起的事。

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He declared that the U.S. is not at war with Islam, but is against violent extremists who exploit the tensions between Islam and the West.

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The moment war is declared, however, the mass of the people, through some spiritual alchemy, become convinced that they have willed and executed the deed themselves.

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Although war is seldom declared, de facto wars still occur and the belligerents are often non-states.

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When it comes to the conduct of war, Turner declared, President Bush is the decider.

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