Thus, these "individuals" outsmart and outflank the high and the mighty, who, one is left to conclude, simply surrender to their superior insight.

因此，这些“个人”在思想和行动上都超越了那些位高权重的人，对于他们我们也只能认为，他们将在更高的智慧面前臣服。

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A prolonged trumpet-blast followed, and a proclamation, "Way for the high and mighty the Lord Edward, Prince of Wales!"

接着是一阵长时间的号角声，接着是呼喊：“赶快回避，威尔士太子爱德华殿下驾到！”

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But should the high and mighty get off when ordinary people committing the same crimes would go to prison?

普通人犯同样的罪要进监狱，位高权重者就该逃脱吗？

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How, too, are we to survive in this richly unfair world if we are to be robbed of the satisfaction of observing and detecting the hypocrisy of the high and the mighty?

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The brothers are the latest to join the ranks of the high and mighty named in the ongoing telecom investigation in which 14 people, including two former billionaires, were jailed.

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But what nobody can deny, many believe, is that Mr Kejriwal has shattered an inviolable code of silence, by talking openly about what he believes are transgressions of the powerful and influential, the so-called "high and mighty" of India's intensely unequal and hierarchical society.

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