In a world where Western voters demand maximum results for minimum expenditure of blood and treasure, assassination by machine has an obvious appeal to political leaders.

在当今世界里，西方选民们要求以最小的人身和财产代价换取最大的效果，于是无人机器暗杀便成为政界领导们的新宠。

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Neither side won with this deal, to which the one good alternative would be a time machine to take Sacramento's political class back five years and do it right then.

在这场预算争斗中没有赢家，而把五年前的政坛班子重新寻回再做出正确的决定不失为一个好办法。

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When he fired the gun, he shouted that he supported Roscoe Conkling's political machine.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

He broke all his ties with the Conkling political machine.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

Public may wrest power away from the political machine in the task of drawing legislative districts.

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He still had to penetrate a political machine that usually required a hometown pedigree.

NPR: How Chicago Politics Shaped Obama

Mrs Clinton remains a formidable candidate an experienced and intelligent politician, backed by a state-of-the-art political machine.

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