A few victims of corruption gave personal accounts of bureaucrats who cheat the system to deprive people of property, money and rights.

VOA: standard.2009.05.15

He wants to deprive poets of their power to enchant, and something Socrates admits in the tenth book of the Republic, to which he himself has been highly susceptible to the enchantment of the poets.

他想剥去诗人使人着迷的力量，可苏格拉底,也在《理想国》的十册中承认，他个人,对诗人的魅力抵抗力很弱。

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The interrogators were told they could put them in painful standing positions, deprive them of solid food, keep them awake for extended periods of time, lock them in cold rooms, and submit them to the technique of simulated drowning known as waterboarding.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17