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Bus/Financial - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters | | Norwegian term or phrase: falt på | | I juni 1970 foreslo regjeringen Per Borten å åpne nordområdene for oljeleting fra 1971, men åpningsprosessen ble stanset da regjeringen falt på EU-saken noen måneder seinere. |
| | | fell due to | Explanation:
I think that the person meant that the ruling party fell due to (or because of) the controversy over the EU-case. |
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1 hr confidence: collapsed over
Explanation:
It is usually said that a coalition fell apart, broke down or collapsed.
Example sentence(s):- Both issues need the parliament's blessing and both have put great strain on the new leftwing coalition government which came into power after the saucepan revolution earlier this year – when the former right-of-centre coalition government collapsed.
- Dutch government collapses over Afghan missionAMSTERDAM — The Dutch coalition government collapsed Saturday over whether to extend the country's military mission in Afghanistan, leaving the future of its 1,600 soldiers fighting there uncertain. An early
Reference: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/16/iceland-...
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