The defeat in NRW also strips Mrs Merkel's government of its majority in the Bundesrat, the upper house of the legislature, which represents the states.

北威州选举失利同时剥夺了默克尔联邦参议院多数席位的优势，而联邦参议院的议员是各州的代表，是最高的立法机构。

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The sale represents a defeat for Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which wanted to combine the distribution operations of its New York Post with Newsday's.

此次竞标意味着默多克(Rupert Murdoch)旗下的新闻集团(News Corporation)惨遭失败。 新闻集团曾想把《纽约邮报》同《Newsday》的销售业务合并在一起。

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But members of the press syndicate argue that cultural "normalization" represents defeat.

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This gives the media and the voters a new way of judging the government's actions not whether a policy is good or bad for Britain, but whether it represents a victory or defeat for this or that ministerial faction.

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However City's defeat, while only their second of the season, represents further lost points in a campaign that has seen them draw over half their fixtures and win just one of their last 10 league matches.

BBC: Tottenham 3-0 Manchester City

The loss represents Saracens' second loss in the Heineken Cup, having suffered a 25-10 defeat by Clermont Auvergne, but Leinster have now won two out of two, after their impressive 38-22 victory over French high flyers Racing-Metro 92 in Dublin.

BBC: Saracens 23-25 Leinster