贝卢斯科尼先生领导的自由人民党(PDL)注定要在至少一个省份受挫：该党没在罗马准时登记，因而没能参与罗马选举。

Mr Berlusconi's People of Freedom (PDL) party is bound to do badly in at least one province: in Rome it failed to register in time and has been left off the ballot.

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这项由奥巴马任命领导汽车特别工作组的前任私有财产金融家史蒂芬雷特纳提出的建议似乎注定会失败。

The offer, which was dictated by Steven Rattner, the former private-equity financier appointed by Barack Obama to lead the auto task-force, seemed almost designed to fail.

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由于欧洲领导人举措严重失当，救助希腊的行动在开始之前便已几乎注定失败。

Thanks to extraordinary incompetence, Europe's leaders have almost ensured that the Greek rescue failed before it began.

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