It is common for supporters of road networks to reject the models of cities with good public transport by arguing that such systems would not work in their particular city.

公路网的支持者通常会反对拥有良好公共交通的城市模式，他们认为这样的系统在他们所在的城市行不通。

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An advertiser or a politician or talk show host given to [bull] "does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it," he writes.

惯于扯淡的广告商，政客还有脱口秀主持人“并不会排斥事实的权威，说谎者常常这样做，去站到它的对立面，”他写道。

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Nor, paradoxically, could such a deal be negotiated with Hamas on board-not, at least, while it continues to reject the very principle of permanent peace with Israel.

而令人两难的是，只要哈马斯在谈判桌上，任何这样的协定都不能达成——至少在它仍然拒绝与以色列永久和平相处的情况下是这样。

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And if we are not willing to accept that implication, it seems as though we need to reject the soul theory of personal identity.

如果我们不愿,接受这种结论，似乎,我们就需要拒绝承认,人格同一性的灵魂论。

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Eventually we got the permission and built the extension but under these changes it would not have happened as the power would have been given to our neighbours, who would reject it, not on sufficient grounds but just because they didn't like change.

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It is not uncommon for the USPTO to reject a patent only to subsequently reinstate it.

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From this perspective, it is only logical that the heir you felt was best suited to succeed you would be too insightful to not reject the baton you tried to pass to him since it came loaded with self-esteem problems and the care-and-feeding demands of Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum.

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