There is now a lame duck government in Portugal, with elections expected within three months.
How will Democrats get a lame duck administration to support whatever proposal they eventually put forth?
This, combined with his slumping popularity, has led some to describe him as a lame duck.
Were the health fund idea to fail, it might not make Ms Merkel a lame duck.
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Mr Rutte is a lame duck after resigning when the budget negotiations broke down.
Thus our collective financial fate is likely to be left to the actions of a lame duck Congress.
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In the meantime, presidential speculation ensures that no one sees him as a lame duck in New York.
Ahmadinejad, with a year left in his second term, was a lame duck.
Bad ideas get rammed through with police protection and a lame duck legislature.
If that were to happen during Mr Duisenberg's years, he might seem a lame duck, with little public support.
Mr Putin's words about 2012 undermine Mr Medvedev, making him a lame duck 30 months before his term runs out.
Speaking after their meeting, John Kelly said they told the cardinal that they considered him to be "a lame duck leader".
But Mr Abbas contended then and later that Mr Olmert was a lame duck, facing corruption charges and poised to resign.
This would require a lame-duck Congress and, if Mr Obama loses, a lame-duck president to haggle over extending policies they detest.
In Spain national elections do not have to be held until next March, but Prime Minister Zapatero is a lame duck.
It would be wrong for a lame duck in Washington to tie the hands of the next administration on such matters.
Mr Brown is not yet a lame duck, but his hopes of leading anything more than a tail-end government look increasingly forlorn.
The chances that a lame duck Congress will address this issue seem slim as other priorities loom during the short time left.
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Indeed, no bilateral strategic arms reduction treaty with the Soviet Union or Russia has ever been ratified during a lame duck session.
For instance, would he be concerned at all if an energy bill, a major energy bill, were passed, finalized, in a lame duck?
Even the coach knew he was a lame duck, having the option on his contact picked up last summer but not getting an extension.
He saw himself ridiculed as a lame duck as soon as House leaders decided they didn't have the votes and pulled fast-track off the floor.
That is surely why Mr Blair is happy to let her remain in office, a lame duck and not necessarily a game one, until the election.
But he also said he didn't think a deal could be struck in the next month and a half during a lame duck session of Congress.
Mr Pastrana's popularity soon plummeted to less that 20% as it became clear that peace process was going nowhere fast, and he became a lame duck president.
The Mets picked up manager Terry Collins's option for 2013 at the end of last year, ensuring he wouldn't be viewed as a lame duck this year.
The existing president, Kim Young Sam, is a lame duck whom influential visitors to Seoul, such as George Soros, an international financier, do not bother to call on.
However, other senior board members, led by Keith Bradshaw, chief executive of the MCC, thought that it was impossible to have a lame duck coach going into the summer.
Shares soared in 2012 as sales took off on fears that President Obama would win a second term and then, being a lame duck, try and restrict gun ownership.
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