The date of the election was fixed.

选举的日期定下来了。

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The election contest is heating up.

选举竞争正趋于白热化。

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The election was a close-run thing.

这次选举是一次险胜。

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For example,students from at least eight schools in Ghana talked with American students about the election and inauguration of President Obama.

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If you're relentlessly selfish and calculating you would say, the chances that I decide the election are zero, so I'm just not going to bother.

如果你唯利是图,精于算计,你会说,我的投票能够决定选举的概率是零,所以我根本无需投票

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And it came down to what somebody else said here: that left the election on the other dimension, which might have been character or whatever.

这就跟某些在座的同学说一样,选举的重点往往在其他方面,比如说性格或者其他方面

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He says the election is an uphill battle for him, but feels he is making headway.

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But respecting the election result, no matter what it is, remains the biggest challenge of all.

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Mutlaq heads the National Dialogue Council, one of several Sunni-based groups that fielded candidates in the election.

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