You can t sit in all the taxis driven by those loquacious ambassadors from India and Russia and Haiti, from Pakistan and Ghana and Guatemala.

Sometimes it seems like we spend more time arguing about soccer than we do chatting about men.

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Today, with tens of millions of Chinese actively use Sina Weibo, a low murmur of political gossip may have already been amplified and heard by thousands before the internet police step in.

We can discriminate the sounds of our own language, but not those of foreign languages.

The slowness with which the first stimulus has been rolled out, and the fact that it will take even more time for its full effects to be felt, provides more fodder for the chattering classes.

She cautioned her colleagues against loose talk about a Grexit Greece s exit from the eurozone and assured visiting Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras that Germany remained committed to his country s membership of the eurozone.

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Nationalist polled only 31.9 of the votes cast with parties supporting the union polling 59.6 .

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And finally, Abdel Monem Mahmoud wrote in his blog (Ana Ikhwan), about the other series that Ikwan were going to produce themselves, but about a year and a half has already gone and it hasn't seen light yet A year and a half has passed and Waheed Hamed came out with his comic series El Gamaa , and so far we have seen nothing from Al Ikhwan but chit chats. Aren't they going to produce their series after all this to show their real image to society.

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This enabled Labor to take the seat for the first time in its history, on 50.5 percent of the two party preferred vote, a swing of 7.1 percent.

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Number of ballot papers 191 Number of invalid ballots 0 Number of valid ballots 191 Abstentions 4 Number of members voting 187 Required majority of members present and voting 125

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The 2006 Mexican elections had a fierce competition, the electoral results showed a minimal difference between the two most voted candidates and such difference was just about the 0.58 of the total vote.

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They received more than 90 of the votes in the new election.

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In previous Tunisian presidential referenda, Bin Ali routinely received 99 of the vote he now got 96 .

Sauli Niinistö won the second round with 62.6 of the votes (1.8 million votes), while Pekka Haavisto received 37.4 of the votes (1.1 million votes).

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