Sometimess you lose an argument. Sometimes you lose an election.

有时你输掉的是一场辩论，有时你则输掉一场选举。

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He is certain to have been spooked by the findings of an internal Liberal Democratic party survey, reported in the Nikkei business newspaper, predicting the party would lose an election now.

东京商报报道，他这么做肯定是因为被自民党内部调查的结论吓坏了，这份调查预计如果现在举行大选，自民党将会落败。

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For his part, Mr Olmert's admission that a two-state map would be based broadly on the 1967 one would lose him a chunk of his fragile coalition and maybe an election if one were forced.

而对于奥尔默特来说，一旦他承认大部分以1967年的边界为基础的两国版图，便可能失去本已脆弱的联盟中大部分的支持，而且被迫举行大选。

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The Liberal Democratic Party suffered an embarrassing defeat in the Tokyo Metropolitan Election a few weeks ago, and it is expected to lose its half-century hold on Japanese politics in the August 30 general election.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

He told them he would rather lose an election than see his country lose a war.

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Mr Hun Sen may worry that he could still lose an election that was free and fair.

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Democracy works only when the parties that lose an election accept the outcome.

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