The growing ranks of the elderly are not only expected to change the rules by force of numbers; they will also figure heavily in the inevitable public debate.

不断增加的老人数目预计不仅将带来规则变化，而且还将不可避免地成为一项重大的公开辩论专题。

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By force of sheer numbers, however, the mosses and ferns reached Hawaii, survived, and multiplied.

然而，凭借着绝对数量，苔藓和蕨类植物到达了夏威夷群岛，存活并且繁衍了下来。

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Local businessmen sometimes feel that they are being overwhelmed by sheer force of Numbers.

有时候本地商人会感觉被他们数量上的绝对优势压得透不过气。

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This was also a time when Third World countries, by force of numbers, and European socialist green parties, through powers of aggressiveness, seized control of the United Nations to advance globalization goals, which emerging global warming alarm perfectly served.

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This organized movement really originated in the 1970s and early 1980s when Third World countries, by force of numbers, and European socialist green parties, through powers of aggressiveness, seized control of the U.N. and began calling for a New International Economic Order (NIEO) .

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For the Kurds, as well as for many Sunni Arabs, this controversial clause is non-negotiable, since it guarantees that the Shia majority (around 60% of Iraqis) would be unable to get their way by sheer force of numbers.

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