FIFA's hope is that the off-field problems will not affect play, and that the tournament can proceed with some semblance of normalcy.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

They can only be moral if there is some semblance of human choice or will expressed in the relationship, our ability to do otherwise.

它们的道德性只存在于,人类在关系和,去做其他事情的能力当中，选择或者表达意愿的时候。

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Now, to be sure, in Siberia in the far reaches of the north, North Asia, this empire amounted to little more than a series of trading posts, and it took a very long time for any semblance of Russian authority from Moscow and soon from St. Petersburg, for reasons that we'll see, to reach there.

现在,可以肯定,当时的俄国,在西伯利亚和北亚并没有多少商栈,俄国耗费了很多时间,才使得其首都市容变成现在这样,无论是莫斯科,还是之后的圣彼得堡,原因我们会讲到

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