The lessons of the recent past are clear.

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

But Europeans must learn the lessons of the recent past.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

In the short run, the only response is more conservation, and America's allies should put pressure on America to conserve.

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

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

As fiscal austerity means more recessionary and deflationary pressures in the short run, one would need more monetary stimulus to compensate and more domestic demand growth via delayed fiscal austerity in Germany. But the two biggest policy players in the eurozone the European Central Bank and the German government want no part of that agenda, hoping that a quarter of good GDP data makes a trend.

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

Raz had more to say to his friends last year, too

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

In the short term, China s government should discourage further anti Japanese demonstrations.

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

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

Thanks to decisive policy moves to pre empt a housing bubble, the real estate market has stabilized, and further corrections are expected soon.

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.

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

The unbelievable crimes. Our history grips us like a nightmare, for the crimes of the past scar the present and induce yet more crimes in the future.

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.

India has plans for a further unmanned mission to the Moon in the near future, as well as a mission to Mars in November 2013.

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.

Fear and propaganda may lead to more US led international wars, as in the past decade.

From the start, the ICTY s aims were ambitious, having been launched under the UN Security Council s peacemaking powers.

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.

With the Chinese economy still growing at close to 10 per year, the government can afford to take more short term policy risk in order to clear the way for its structural agenda.

In the past, a growing gap between what the country s governing elites delivered and the population s legitimate aspirations would have been addressed by imposing further repression.

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.

As a result, loss of control of parts of Pakistan to an increasingly capable alliance of militant groups is a serious near term threat.

They would always see and want to grasp the benefits of lower interest rates and a little more demand pressure more production, more employment, higher wages, and higher profits in the short run.

In February, the UN Security Council demanded that indiscriminate attacks in Syria stop. It promised to take further steps if these attacks continued.

Last year, we put forward mechanisms to raise additional funds that would allow for more efficient aid, on a stable and predictable basis.

Even setting aside the question of whether more is always better, what can the Juncker plan do to have a positive short run impact on aggregate investment?