By then, he may already be prime minister. Or he may not.

届时，他有可能已经成为新任首相，当然也有可能不是。

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The then prime minister, Mujibur Rahman, tried to counter this by calling them heroines who needed protection and reintegration.

当时的首相穆吉布·拉赫曼试图扭转这一现象，他把受害者称为需要保护，需要重新融入社会的女英雄。

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A bilateral peace process, launched in 2004 by Mr Musharraf and Atal Behari Vajpayee, India's then prime minister, had brought the two countries closer than at any time in their painful history.

2004年由穆沙拉夫和当时的印度首相阿塔尔•戴伯诃厉•瓦杰帕伊(Atal Be hari Vajpayee)启动的双边和平进程，使得两国关系比其痛苦历史中任何时候都要亲密。

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In 2006,the SFO dropped an investigation into allegations that Saudi Arabian officials were bribed by BAE, after then British Prime Minister Tony Blair said the probe threatened national security.

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After two years of work, without modern hydraulic machinery, it was officially opened by then Prime Minister Harold MacMillan.

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It was called a "stunt that has become a farce" by then Prime Minister Gordon Brown but a few, including Fraser Nelson of the Spectator, believed he was was doing it for all the right reasons.

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And this for a man who as a young officer back in the 1950s was dubbed by the then prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, and later by others, as an inveterate liar.

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