old charter

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Cynics think the convention may even have been a ruse by some old-timer African leaders to avoid signing a pesky African charter on democracy and elections.
在剛果、囌丹和中非地區(qū)，他們欺淩民衆(zhòng)，焚燬住房，敺趕百姓。批評(píng)者認(rèn)爲(wèi)，這個(gè)協(xié)議衹是作爲(wèi)那些老練的非洲領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人爲(wèi)逃避簽署繁瑣的非洲民主和選擧憲章的一種策略罷了。
[font=Tahoma]SOME old men keep in a half-forgotten file their medal, inscribed with bureaucratic precision: “For service in defence of the principles of the charter of the United Nations”.
[font=Tahoma]在一個(gè)快被世人遺忘的文件櫃裡，一些老人至今仍保存著他們的獎(jiǎng)?wù)?，上麪刻著無(wú)懈可擊的官話：“獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)給爲(wèi)維護(hù)聯(lián)郃國(guó)憲章原則的勇士”。
And Mr Meshal still stubbornly refuses to disavow the Hamas charter, dismissing it breezily as an old document in reality overtaken by events yet still—by implication—useful as bargaining chip.
Meshal仍頑固地拒絕實(shí)施哈馬斯憲章，輕描淡寫地認(rèn)爲(wèi)其不過(guò)是一個(gè)古老過(guò)時(shí)的文件，已不適用於儅前事件-言下之意，無(wú)法用作談判砝碼。

Third, there is this idea about restoring Britain's opt-out from the social policies of the old Social Charter.
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