His two main rivals suffer the disadvantage of having been long-term political exiles.

他的两名主要竞争对手由于长期被政治流放而处于不利地位。

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However, even if a political agreement is reached on closer budgetary integration, it will not provide a solution to the crisis, especially in the short term.

不过，即使达成了实现更紧密的预算一体化的协议，这也很难对解决危机有所帮助。至少在近期还看不到它的作用。

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Mr Netanyahu's inflexibility over the settlers may have got him out of a political jam; it also militates against the peace that would guarantee the Jewish state's long-term survival.

内塔尼亚胡在定居点问题上的顽固不化也许会导致他退出政坛；同时对保障犹太国长久生存的和平进程产生不利影响。

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You may have heard the term laissez-faire to describe a kind of economic or political policy.

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Only a small city, small enough to be governed by relations of trust, can be political, in Aristotle's sense of the term.

仅有一座小城，小到能由信任的关系来管治，才能称作是政治社会，这是以亚里士多德的标准看来。

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Today the term "political science" stands for one among a number of different disciplines that we call collectively the social sciences.

今日，政治科学“一词“,意指独立的学科,是我们集中称之为,社会科学的多种学科之一。

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But short-term political need, rather than long-term prosperity, is dictating Argentine policy.

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"It's another example of short-term political posturing from Washington, not the long-term leadership we need to solve our dependence on oil, " he said.

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The meeting between Blades and Meckler just possibly might prove to have explosive long-term political impact.

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