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NL888 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Does "and assert our rights with a strong hand" mean "and (in order to) assert our rights with a strong hand“？
Context:
But we should be blind to existing conditions and should allow ourselves to become foolish idealists if we did not realize that, with all the nations of the world armed and prepared for war, we must be ourselves in a similar condition, in order to prevent other nations from taking advantage of us and of our inability to defend our interests and assert our rights with a strong hand.
But we should be blind to existing conditions and should allow ourselves to become foolish idealists if we did not realize that, with all the nations of the world armed and prepared for war, we must be ourselves in a similar condition, in order to prevent other nations from taking advantage of us and of our inability to defend our interests and assert our rights with a strong hand.
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I read it as "inability to [defend our interests and assert our rights with a strong hand]".
- I read it as "inability to [defend our interests and assert our rights with a strong hand]".
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I read it as "inability to [defend our interests and assert our rights with a strong hand]".
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Thanks.
But whose hand? "with a strong hand of ours" or "with a strong hand of theirs (other nations')?
But whose hand? "with a strong hand of ours" or "with a strong hand of theirs (other nations')?
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NL888Thanks. But whose hand? "with a strong hand of ours" or "with a strong hand of theirs (other nations')?It must be the former. It wouldn't make sense there for the speaker to be talking of asserting "our rights" with someone else's hand.
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