A century and a half ago, Japan became the first non Western country to adapt successfully to modern globalization.

SÃO PAULO Less than a decade ago, Brazil s economy faltered at the first sign of instability in international financial markets.

The first photographs of Perdita were taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986, but it was not recognized from the photographs for more than a decade.

In May, President Thein Sein became the first leader from Myanmar to visit the White House in nearly a half century.

The first nationwide poll in nearly a decade passed off relatively well and was endorsed by Nepali officials as well as the hundreds of international election observers.

The interim deal is Iran s first compromise on its nuclear program in more than a decade, and a diplomatic victory in a field long overshadowed by the looming cloud of military intervention.

If we run the movie of our universe backwards, we know that there was a Big Bang in our past, and we might even hear the cacophonous sound of it, but was our Big Bang the only Big Bang?

In late January, the Obama administration issued its first unequivocal reaffirmation of the strategy of democratic enlargement that has guided Western thinking since the collapse of the Iron Curtain two decades ago.

At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has taken up this very challenge, first set by his great predecessor Kemal Atatürk nearly a century ago.

Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time for it is an evil time.

Olusegun Obasanjo, who became Nigeria s first elected president in 1999 after nearly two decades of military dictatorship, left vast swathes of the country trapped in poverty when he handed power to Yar Adua last year.

Half a century ago, the free market economist Friedrich von Hayek argued that a large public sector would threaten democracy itself, putting European countries on a road to serfdom. Yet the Nordic states have thrived, not suffered, from a large social welfare state, with much less public sector corruption and far higher levels of voter participation than in the US.

Your first your first pocketknife is like the first universal tool that you're given.

The nearby Reliance Building was the first skyscraper to have large plate glass windows comprise the majority of its surface area, and One North LaSalle was for some time one of Chicago's tallest buildings.

It will take decades, not a single season, to answer such questions. As events in Egypt and elsewhere have shown, we are only just beginning to comprehend the effects of the information revolution on power in this century.

A Decade of Hugo Chávez

PRAGUE For decades, the idea of the electric car has captured the imaginations of innovators including Henry Ford and Thomas Edison more than a century ago.

The CGE members from Asia nominated Mr. M. Asaduzzaman (Bangladesh) as the rapporteur of the CGE as provided for in decision 3 CP.8, Mr. Asaduzzaman will succeed as Chair of the CGE in 2006.

After all, Libyan financial institutions have been investing in Italy for decades.

In India, the government has tried for decades to get cheap food to the poor.

Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

Romania has now been a Member of the United Nations for half a century.

It lost its innocence decades ago.

The Israel Palestine conflict has lasted far too long.

MEXICO Drug trafficking has existed in Mexico for decades.

who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.

Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.

SÃO PAULO Less than a decade ago, Brazil s economy faltered at the first sign of instability in international financial markets. Today, by contrast, the country seems immune from global market turbulence or so Brazilian officials believe.

It undergoes a crisis about once a decade.

The Cuban Missile Crisis at 50

Latin America suffered a lost decade.

This situation had persisted for two decades.

We spent the first night in the hallway.

Russia was the first country to develop civilian nuclear power and to construct the world's first nuclear power plant.

Its savings rate has been distressingly low for decades.

to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

Two decades later, these efforts have proven to be a spectacular success.

For decades, government has been demonized.