Presently the success stories are the plural, liberal societies - what I call the unholy alliance of consumerist unbelievers.

目前成功的经验都是多元的自由社会——我称之为消费主义无信仰者的非神圣同盟。

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Dory Chamoun, who heads Lebanon's National Liberal Party, an ally of Hariri, says that the election appears trouble-free and that he thinks the Pro-Western alliance has a slight edge.

自由国民党领导人夏蒙是哈里里的盟友。他表示，这次选举看来会没有任何问题，并且他认为亲西方联盟占一点优势。

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This accomplishment led to a flurry of speculation that George Soros might try to institutionalise this successful alliance by creating a liberal version of AIPAC.

这次捷报引发了种种猜测：乔治·索罗斯(George Soros)可能会创建一个类似AIPAC的自由派团体，以使这次成功的联盟发扬光大。

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When votes were finally totted up, the largest opposition party, the liberal Democratic Alliance, had won barely 12%.

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According to ICM polls for the National Union of Teachers, the big shift against the Conservatives came in 1987 when 46% of teachers said they would support the Liberal Democrat Alliance, with 28% supporting Labour and 24% the Conservatives.

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At the latest general election, in 2009, it got 66% of the vote (down from 70% the time before) against only 17% for the biggest opposition party, the liberal Democratic Alliance (DA), still seen by most blacks as an essentially white-led organisation.

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