Egypt has been mediating between rival Palestinian factions Fatah in the West Bank and Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

We add up the goods, subtract the bads-- whatever our favorite list is-- and we come to our best educated guess about the rival evaluations of not just lives as a whole, but chunks of lives.

我们把好事加起来减去坏事-,不管我们最喜欢哪些事-,我们不但可以据理推测,一生期间其他生活的价值，还能推测某段时间其他生活的价值。

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They are going to be denigrated because they maintain cults that rival the central sanctuary of Jerusalem And this is going to be what does them in.

他们会被诋毁,因为他们保持着崇拜耶路撒冷中心圣所的宗教传统,这就会使他们陷于诋毁。

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Bereket had harsh words for Ethiopia's Horn of Africa rival Eritrea, which the United States accuses of backing al-Shabab in Somalia.

VOA: standard.2009.08.20

The New Criticism, incontestably and without rival, created an atmosphere in which it was okay to notice that things were a little more difficult than they'd been supposed to be.

新批评派，无可厚非，创造了一种很好的风气，大家似乎都能欣然接受,那些看起来还比较复杂的东西。

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According to the exit polling, only about one in ten voters favored her closest rival, Social Democrat lawmaker Algirdas Butkevicius.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

In any case, Aristotle returned to Athens later on and established a school of his own, a rival to the Platonic Academy " that he called the Lyceum.

无论如何，亚里士多德后来回到雅典,并建立了他自己的学校，和柏拉图的学院打擂台,他称之为，“学园。

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Campaigning officially began Saturday in the runoff election between incumbent President Hamid Karzai and top rival, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

rival theories about the key to personal identity.

关于人格同一性的,3个理论。

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The Paris Air Show ends Sunday which still gives Boeing time to catch up to rival Airbus in securing new aircraft orders.

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

The anger here is directed against the superficial, the flashy, liturgies read by the Laudian priests, but I think it's also being directed at the lean and flashy songs that are being written by Milton's poetic contemporaries, his rival poets.

这里表现出的愤怒，很明显是针对，劳德式牧师们虚伪浮华的礼拜式，但我认为这也是针对这些本身很虚华,由弥尔顿同时代的诗人所写的颂歌。

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When the White House learned Cheney would be on ABC, it offered Biden to two rival networks.

VOA: standard.2010.02.14

But these stories rival, and implicitly polemicize against, the myths or mythologies of Israel's neighbors.

这些故事相矛盾，且隐含着相反含意，与以色列的杜撰故事和神话传说。

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Bongo has urged voters to ignore rival candidates who he says are traitors and liars who will turn their backs on the country.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

We now have two rival explanations, the soul, dualist, explanation that we went into the other world and the physicalist, promissory note that we can explain the white lights and the feeling of euphoria and seeing your body from a distance in physical terms.

我们现在有两个对立的解释,二元论解释是灵魂,因此我们进入,到了另一个世界的,而物理主义,从物理角度,用期票解释了,白光,兴奋的感觉,以及在远处看到自己身体的现象

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Riots by rival gangs and factions of the security forces drove 100,000 people from their homes.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

instead of pursuing the questions of how exactly that theory should go, notice that if we had that theory ... we could still evaluate in principle-- whatever the practical difficulties might be-- in principle we could still evaluate rival lives.

我们不去研究,那种理论如何发挥作用，即便我们有那种理论,原则上我们仍然可以-,不管实际困难是什么-,原则上我们仍然可以评价其他生活。

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But in his conciliatory mood Saturday, Mr.Ravalomanana suggested he would not object to a constitutional change that would allow his arch-rival to seek the presidency.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

Mr.Karzai's chief rival, Abdullah Abdullah, also has questioned the United Nations' role in the election.

VOA: standard.2009.10.07

He did not reveal the contents, but it is widely reported here the letter urges India to resume discussions with its neighbor and long-time rival.

VOA: standard.2009.06.11

But Udon Thani is also home a small minority of Yellow Shirts, a rival movement whose street protests helped prompt the 2006 coup that removed Mr.Thaksin.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

"The advancement we're going to make on the production and research side of things in the next 10 years is going to rival the last 100 years."

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

The vote is supposed to take place in the West Bank, which is controlled by Mr.Abbas, and the Gaza Strip which is ruled by its rival faction Hamas.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

New Delhi views its growing ties with the United States as a counterweight to China a one-time rival of which it continues to be wary, despite steadily improving ties.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Sudan's rival,Chad,has also indicated it would not honor the decision.

VOA: standard.2009.07.06

Ms.Tymoshenko said in a televised appeal to the nation Saturday she is convinced her rival, Victor Yanukovich, who seeks closer ties with neighboring Russia, had not won the presidential election.

VOA: standard.2010.02.14

Clinton,in a talk with reporters here, said she has been involved in intensive telephone diplomacy with President Karzai and his main election rival, former Afghan foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, and is encouraged by what she has heard from the parties.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

Mr.Ban welcomed President Hamid Karzai's announcement Tuesday that he would accept a runoff with his closest rival, Abdullah Abdullah, after the U.N.-backed audit of the August 20 vote found nearly a quarter of all votes were fraudulent and had to be thrown out.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

Ali Nourizadeh of the London-based Center for Arab and Iranian Studies says Iran thinks that by spending $50 million it can rival Western broadcasters, but he doubts it will succeed: "The Iranians know the effect of international media, especially those Farsi-speaking media like Voice of America and the BBC.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16