It was the biggest prisoner transfer ever conducted in france-and it reflects a belated effort to respond to dreadful prison conditions.

这是法国进行过最大的一次囚犯转移，也是响应可怕的囚犯待遇迟来的努力。

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That sounds like a belated effort to climb on to the Internet bandwagon.

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Maybe it's Sarbanes-Oxley, maybe it's the spirit of the times, or maybe it's just a belated effort to earn their own, sometimes lavish, pay, but corporate directors sure are acting up these days.

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General Electric bought RCA in 1986 in a belated effort to benefit from the Reagan military buildup, but sold the military part of the business to Lockheed Martin during the defense-sector consolidation that followed the end of the Cold War.

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