Any of these countries can block a proposal by casting a negative vote, even if the other four permanent and all non-permanent members vote in favour.

任何一个常任理事国家投反对票，就能阻止提案通过，即使其余4个常任理事国和所有非常任理事国都投赞成票也不行。

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Foreign observer teams, who are yet to publish their formal conclusions, have also been broadly negative about whether the vote was free and fair.

一些外国观察小组即将公布他们正式的观察结果，他们对这次大选的自由度和公正性也普遍持否定态度。

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The vote was positive, not negative.

这次选举是积极的不是消极的。

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The highest of these was a 38.58 percent negative vote received by Sir Winfried F.

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In Britain and Poland, the voters' mood currently points to a negative vote.

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At least 13 individual directors, all of whom sat on at least three corporate boards during this period, had received a 13 percent or higher negative vote.

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