The lessons of the recent past are clear.

But Europeans must learn the lessons of the recent past.

Those are considerable achievements, given the realities of the recent past.

One has only to examine the recent past to see why.

And she looks back at recent history to compare the terror that has gripped her hometown

If so, the contrast with the recent past could hardly be starker.

How the situation will develop in the near future can be gleaned from the recent past.

Here again, Iraq s immediate past history allows one to be optimistic.

I have had the opportunity in the recent past to place on record Canada's strong support for the enlargement of the Security Council.

Promotional work should continue and intensify, building on successful experiences in the recent past.

In the recent past, the prices of these products have increased faster than steel prices.

Let s examine the illness that leads certain EU leaders with questionable scruples to forget even the recent past.

In the recent past, there were some 26 different federal agencies running their own payroll systems.

Fourth, the social gains of the recent past, while important, are far from sufficient.

If the immediate past is a guide, one has reason for optimism in Iraq.

Moreover the influence of the country's Scandinavian neighbours was now much stronger than it had been in the recent past.

However, the recent past has been a showcase for grave shortcomings in the treaty system.

But nowhere is the contrast between the recent glorious past and the miserable present as spectacular as it is in France.

Those who called Puerto Rico a colony shut their eyes to the present, the future and even the recent past.

Global events in the recent past have reinforced, rather than diminished, our support for the principles enshrined in the Rome Statute.

The Eastern African coast, for instance, has in the recent past experienced a series of armed attacks, particularly in the waters adjacent to Somalia.

But major new injections of capital into the banking system are unlikely, owing to lingering fear from the recent financial past.

Instead, it treated the Great Recession as similar to others in the recent past, albeit deeper.

Past mistakes, committed not just by Greece, but also by its international partners, make a difficult short term future unavoidable.

The lagoon of Khniss used to have a particularly rich marine biodiversity that until a recent past sustained pretty well the livelihood of local fishermen families.

The events of the recent past have not only reinforced that notion, but have also led to its being placed high on the international agenda.

These mean reverting processes are, well, reverting, implying that the buoyant performance of the recent past is unlikely to return any time soon.

And, while fiscal stimulus is called for in the short run, the long term outlook for Japan s public finances is deeply troublesome, owing to the huge debts run up in the past.

Last year we stated that at that time and for the near future the Russian Federation had no plans to create and deploy any kind of space weapon system in outer space.

Relative to the recent past, the cost of capital will increase, debt will be more expensive and less ubiquitous, and risk spreads will not return to pre crisis compressed levels.

Whatever becomes of the Green Movement in the short term, millions of courageous Iranian protestors made clear to the world last summer that their country s centennial quest for a democracy is an idea whose time has come.

It is time for our leaders to recognize new systemic risks and work together to mitigate them. Otherwise, the recent past will be prologue, with those risks likely to get the better of the global economy.

Realizing that, in spite of the positive gains of the recent past, the situation in Liberia remains fragile and still constitutes a threat to international peace and security in the subregion,

France wanted to tame German power by harnessing it to the European project, and Germany was prepared to sacrifice the Deutsche Mark for the sake of France s acceptance of a united Germany, the nightmare of Europe s recent past.

The developed world still accounts for nine tenths of world outward FDI flows, but FDI from developing countries has shown higher growth rates in the recent past.

Our sponsors represent a broad spectrum of countries big and small, developing and industrialized, North and South, permanent members of the Security Council, and countries that look back on long years of stability as well as some that have gone through major transformations in the recent past.

Close encounter four the Algarve, Portugal, 1991.

I met her in a coffee shop near the station.

Data pointers remain to be of the near type.

If markets are confused or pessimistic about China s longer term agenda, but if the direction of structural change and reform is positive, there may be investment opportunities that were absent in the more exuberant recent past.

Close encounter three Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1989.

Others may follow soon.

In the short run, it is clear who lost.

I agree with you and your evaluation of the film.

A community which might be demolished in the near future.