Lib Dems were appalled by Mr Boles's offer, however kindly meant: the party is so frightened of losing its independence under Mr Clegg that such a pact would "kill" him, says a senior member.

无论倡议意图是多么友善，自民党人都为之一惊：一位资深自民党人表示，在克莱格先生的旗下，自民党非常担心失去其独立性，这样的协议将会“绞杀”他。

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Her price for boosting the bail-out fund is thus a grand bargain, with the competitiveness pact at its heart.

她推行救市一揽子计划的代价就此成为一次宏大的讨价还价，而竞争力条约则成为其核心部分。

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But many Allies will worry that appointing a figure from the former Warsaw Pact, from a country that agreed to deploy American anti-missile defences on its soil, might antagonise Russia.

但是许多盟军都将担心，任命前华沙公约组织、一个同意部署美国反导防御体系的国家的人物可能会遭致俄罗斯的抵抗。

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Panama is likely to follow its neighbours with a bilateral trade pact with the United States in the next six months.

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The White House could use its South Korean trade pact as a late bargaining chip for fast-track renewal, though it might be a low-value one.

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Nobody failed to see the irony that it was Germany which, in the late 1990s, had insisted on a rigid stability pact as its price for accepting the euro.

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