A transatlantic free trade agreement would require painful concessions on both sides , but the sine qua non is a european willingness to tackle agricultural subsidies .
一项跨大西洋自由贸易协定需要双方都做出痛苦让步,但一个必不可少的条件是欧洲愿意解决农业补贴问题。
They considered the unexpected federal fiat a violation of religious liberty and individual conscience , but they didn 't think these wrongs had anything to do with themselves qua women .
Like philosophy , computing qua computing is worth teaching less for the subject matter itself and more for the habits of mind that studying it encourages .
就像哲学,计算机课之于计算机课,更多在于它促进思考的习性,而不仅仅是这门课本身。
Just as corn and soy are the bread and butter of big ag , the persistence of small , traditionally conceptualized farms practicing time honored agricultural techniques is the sine qua non of the sustainable food movement .