Mr Golding’s poll ratings are poor but not disastrous, with 32% approving of him in June, up from 25% a year earlier.

戈尔丁的民意测验虽然很低但不至于很糟，六月份测验显示有32%的人支持他，比今年年初的25%有所上升。

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Almost every employer will keep you in your seat for at least one year before approving an internal transfer, so a job-search bait-and-switch probably won't work out the way you'd hoped.

在内部调迁之前，几乎每个雇主都会让你在同一个职位上呆一年左右，所以在求职中“诱售法”可能不会起到你想象中的作用。

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The research with foreign investment and development centre is required to submit to its approving authority its annual report on its research and development activities by March 31 of each year.

研发中心每年应将其上一年度研究开发进展及经营活动情况于3月31日前上报审批机关；

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Ireland rejected the Lisbon Treaty in a referendum in 2008, before approving it a year later after obtaining EU concessions, but the success of this fiscal treaty is unlikely to depend on Irish voters.

BBC: EU summit: All but two leaders sign fiscal treaty

Its exact form is not yet clear, but it seems likely that legislation will be approved later this year, against approving background noise from politicians lamenting the moral decline that has led to widespread abuse of the old bankruptcy law.

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What happens in America matters globally, since it is the world's leading patent office, approving about 170, 000 patents each year, half of which are granted to foreign applicants.

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