The government is expected to reject the idea of state subsidy for a new high-speed railway.

预期该政府不会同意向一条新建高速铁路提供国家补助的意见。

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This undermines the main point of the idea of a state of nature, which is to distinguish what we bring to society from what we owe to society.

这就动摇了自然状态观念的根基，这种观念把我们带给社会什么与我们应对社会贡献什么区分开来。

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We would therefore have to abandon the concept of determinism, the idea that the state of the universe at any one time determines the state at all other times.

因此，我们不得不放弃这种决定论的观念，即认为宇宙的状态在任何一个时刻决定了其他所有时刻的状态。

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He says this means establishing the rule of law, rejecting the idea of a police state and supporting the separation of power.

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The idea is that there is some state of being with God.

存在同上帝同在的想法。

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Anybody have an idea? What's the one function of state? I'm the system, the rest are the surrounding. What's the one function of state that's constant when I'm doing all my chemical reactions to move my arms around?

态函数又是什么呢？,我是一个系统，其余的是周围的环境,那么当我在做所有的化学反应,去四处移动我的手臂的时候,什么量是常数？

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While Merkel elsewhere distances herself from the idea of state aid for big, flailing businesses, her election rival, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, lauds the Magna-Opel deal on and supports aid for Arcandor too.

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She also said the party had to understand that "people are much more sceptical and much more hostile about the idea of the state spending money on their behalf".

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The Supreme Court accepted the idea of a state secret privilege more than 50 years ago.

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