she was honest, if a little brutal.

她是诚实的，尽管有点残忍。

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And if these companies feel little shame in doing business with a brutal and dangerous regime, it falls to statesmen to do their job and put these companies to a choice by imposing sanctions that cut them off from lucrative markets in the U.S., Europe, Canada, Australia and elsewhere.

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