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In this task, we ask you to rewrite a sentence in simple English without changing its general meaning. Essentially, you want to make the sentence easier to read by using simpler words, utilizing more straightforward sentence structures, and omitting non-essential information etc.
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The Chinese People 's Liberation Army ( PLA ) is the armed forces of the People 's Republic of China ( PRC ) and of its founding and ruling political party , the Communist Party of China ( CPC ) .
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The People 's Liberation Army ( or simply PLA ) is the armed forces of the Communist Party of China .


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Noam Chomsky , a linguist and political scientist , surprised many by coming to the defense of sociobiology on the grounds that political radicals needed to postulate a relatively fixed idea of human nature in order to be able to struggle for a better society , claiming that leaders should know what human needs were in order to build a better society .
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Noam Chomsky surprised many by coming to the defense of sociobiology on the grounds that political radicals need to postulate a relatively fixed idea of human nature in order to be able to struggle for a better society .


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This 12th-century sovereign was named after Emperor Toba , and " go- " ( 後 ) , translates literally as " later " ; and thus , he is sometimes called the " Later Emperor Toba " .
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This 12th century sovereign was named after Emperor Toba and " go- " ( 後 ) means " later " .