The defeat in NRW also strips Mrs Merkel's government of its majority in the Bundesrat, the upper house of the legislature, which represents the states.

北威州选举失利同时剥夺了默克尔联邦参议院多数席位的优势，而联邦参议院的议员是各州的代表，是最高的立法机构。

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The 30-year loan first became broadly available by an act of Congress in 1954 and, from then until now, the vast majority of such loans have been issued only with government support.

在1954年一项国会法案之后，使得偿还期为30年的借贷方式才得以广泛采用，然而直到今天，由于众多的投资者不热衷这种长期投资，他们青睐的是采用可调节利率借贷。

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The purchase would be one of the largest by a Chinese-owned energy company that isn’t majority owned by the Chinese government.

这将成为非国有的中资能源公司所进行的最大收购案之一。

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"Labor can't form a majority government - they're too far behind.

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

Advisor to the president Rajendra Dahal says a move to install a new majority government is required under the Interim Constitution, since the parties refused to meet the president's Saturday midnight deadline to form a coalition by consensus.

VOA: standard.2009.05.10

The Liberal Democrats can't form a majority government on their own either and the Conservative chances of doing that, which were slim when the campaign started, have receded - they're the main victim of the surge in support for the Liberal Democrats that occurred last week."

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

Mr Stoltenberg will now form the country's first majority government in two decades.

ECONOMIST: An oil-rich country tilts leftwards

Statoil, like Cnooc, is majority government-owned (see Statoil: The Government Oil Play), but no politicians had made a peep about Norwegians invading the U.S. oilpatch.

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Scottish Labour's parliamentary business manager Paul Martin expressed concern that the "new arrangements could see the majority government place opposition business at the end of the parliamentary week".

BBC: Parliamentary reform debate 1