The war lasted two years.

The speech lasted thirty minutes.

May your lands be always filled with great occasions.

Never mind the inconvenient truth that the acts may be theologically impermissible the ends justify the means, and there really is no alternative.

Sami woke up after a six week coma.

The trial itself lasted less than an hour.

As long as that remains true, Haiti's agony will continue.

The New Partnership is now just four years old.

The crisis has lasted for a long time, and people are tired.

Where there is a will, there is a way.

It marked the end of the 105 day Winter War.

(For the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils)

They shall fear you while the sun endures and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.

All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils

They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.

Some believe that if innovations are sustainable, they become successful practices.

As long as the fire is there, the spread of smoke cannot be prevented.

But a month long attempt to broker an inclusive government failed.

After an eight month revolution that devastated the country, Libyans are demanding real reforms.

Burma is suffering the impact of decades of civil war.

He thus considers that they have been unreasonably prolonged.

But, as long as interest rates remain low and growth high, Americans can laugh at predictions that their excesses are laying the seeds of ruin.

The sharp tone and fierce partisanship of the past 13 years have been cast aside.

As long as interest rates remain low, there is no downward pressure on public investment.

It could no more fade away than our desire for freedom could wane.

Even so, now that the issue has been put before the Court, it must be discussed.

It helped that this revolution could be counted in days, a miracle of compression.

Some EU members (Germany and Italy) are more dependent on the US than others (France), and thus more likely to support US strategic initiatives.

Saudi Arabia s decade long royal death watch is over.

As long as they make money they do not care if they have to eat their words. They simply want whatever works whatever will produce a stable, healthy economic environment conducive to debt repayment.

But the 60 year super boom is a more complicated case.

Another postponement of a decision, after 12 years of discussion, will mean the failure of our efforts.

The Prosecution has completed the presentation of its case over thirty nine trial days.

And why shouldn t they if things are as good as Trichet claims?

It lasted for nearly a century, until the early 1980 s.

Sins can be dealt with, as long as proper ceremony is observed.

Lasting 22 years, that war left more than two million dead.

(a) The Peace Accord of Luena of 2002 ending 27 years of civil war

Recovering from more than 20 years of civil war will be a lengthy and a costly process.

Such a possibility seems even more far fetched as long as the Iranian nuclear crisis remains unresolved and the Syrian crisis continues to widen the region s Shia Sunni divide (reflected in increased tension between Turkey and Iran).

If the First Lady wears a headscarf, maintained the secular minded elite, the whole secular system could be undermined.

Decades of talks have failed to make any impact on carbon emissions.

Where courts and police are corrupt, over burdened and inefficient, basic civil rights will be violated.

This process was largely frozen during the five decades of the Cold War.

Israel s position is liable to become weaker the longer it persists on its present course.