The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind;

相反，同自然可能强加给人类的任何身体上的不平等而言，它是一种道德和法律意义上的平等；

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Mr. Lukashenko is in trouble if his social pact begins to seriously fray.

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In a booming economy, especially if the raises are largely symbolic (like the catch-up minimum wage adjustments since 1990), that may be an acceptable trade-off for keeping the social pact that sustains capitalism and free markets.

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Last summer the government made an extraordinary fiscal pact with businessmen and social groups, but then backed out of it.

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