He does indeed say things that could not possibly be true, but they are only the sorts of fibs that prime ministers are hired to tell.

他确实说事情不可能这样做，但是他们仅仅是利用首相所说的那种谎言。

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Most new prime ministers are in their early 40s. But the next one will be a grey-bearded veteran.

大多新首相都是四十出头，但下一个将是一个有灰白胡须的老手。

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That would be a disaster, even by the sorry standards of recent Japanese politics, in which four prime ministers have come and gone in the past four years.

一旦出现这种局面，对日本政坛来说则是灾难性的，即使按最近日本政坛改弦更张的频率来算（过去4年出现4位首相）。

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In theory, the president can call one only if three would-be prime ministers in a row fail to get parliament to back a new government.

ECONOMIST: Czech Republic

The media mogul repeatedly said he hadn't asked prime ministers and would-be prime ministers for favors and that his commercial interests didn't influence where his newspapers stood on issues or political parties.

WSJ: News Corp. Chief Faces Inquiry

So it would just be those prime ministers.

BBC: The future of Europe: Justin Webb quizzed