About ten years have passed since the day of Politkovskaya s murder.

For four years, violence and terror have ruled in Darfur.

Ten years have passed since February 12, 2005, when she says she was raped.

Four decades have passed since the oil price shocks of the 1970 s.

But the decades since his death have confirmed that there is no escaping the conflicting sovereignties of states.

Sixteen years have passed, but the pain remains, buried in the hearts and minds of the people.

Sixty years have passed since the end of the Second World War, and the seeds and peace are now deeply rooted in the hearts of the world's people.

All this comes during a year when the OSCE is supposed to be celebrating its contribution to promoting security and cooperation in Europe, reflecting on the 30 years since the signing of the Helsinki Final Act and the 15 years since the Charter of Paris set out a vision for a Europe whole and free.

From your beginnings in Africa, through each generation, may be passed on to you, in your creation. It's a secret urge, hiding deep in you.

BAGHDAD Ten years have passed since Saddam Hussein was removed from power, following more than three decades of tyrannical rule.

In the five years since the attacks, two audiences for the so called war on terror have emerged.

Fifty years have passed since the army arrested hundreds of thousands of communists and their suspected sympathizers as part of a campaign to save the country from the scourge of communism.

It s been 60 years

It has been 10 years.

In the 60 years since World War II came to an end, we have counted on each other in times of peril and challenge.

The four decades since The Limits of Growth have shown that we need more of it, not less.

Obama, however, inherited an economy in freefall, and could not possibly have turned things around in the short time since his inauguration.

MEXICO CITY Not long after I took office as Mexico s foreign minister in 2001, a novel problem came across my desk.

So, fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world remains more in need of new thinking than ever.

In the seven years since, the Forum has helped to foster trust, knowledge, and cooperation among states and other stakeholders.

In a few months, it will be four years since the eurozone crisis began almost an eternity by historical standards.

CHICAGO Three years have now passed since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, which triggered the start of the most acute phase of the 2007 2008 financial crisis.

Gulu and Uganda has gone through some incredible changes.

He has even done the math sixty years have indeed passed since the Holocaust ended, five times the actual period of Nazi rule in Germany.

It has been generations since economists Robert Solow and Moses Abramovitz pointed out that Marshall s toolkit is a poor aid for understanding modern economic growth.

Other countries have gone through similar experiences.

To talk about the violence that most of us have lived through.

Naturally, the 20 year hiatus since the last congress created a huge gap that was quickly filled by intifada veterans rather than old style guerrillas, who had dominated the movement since its establishment.

Only a few years have passed since the last financial crisis and its effects are still being felt.

Now, in the 27 years since HIV was identified as the cause of AIDS, we've developed more drugs to treat HIV than all other viruses put together.

In the ten years since 9 11, the combined GDP of Brazil, Russia, India, and China (the BRICs) rose from 8.4 of the global economy to 18.3 .

NEWPORT BEACH The United States has gone through an arduous period of intervention and rehabilitation since the global financial crisis in 2008 sent it to the economic equivalent of the emergency room.

Mr. Jessen Petersen The three months since my last report to the Security Council have been marked by a positive trend in what is a crucial year for Kosovo and for the region.

Russia went through a somewhat similar experience.

While modern central banks had difficulty in dealing with inflationary shocks, it had been generations since they had seen a deflationary shock that they could not handle.

Because the past is knowable, the best way of understanding a current crisis is to search for a model in past experiences, even those that are long past.

Noting that since 1995, the Comoros has been subjected to several major events, including a secessionist conflict, which created serious political instability and caused economic and social trauma,

but what happened was that Madagascar went through a violent coup.

At that time a main road passed right next to it.

The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall will be commemorated in November, and it has been five years since the European Union s Big Bang enlargement. The Cold War division of Europe is well and truly over.

Five years may be too short a period for historians to judge the full significance of the event, but it does offer an opportunity to take stock.

It has been roughly 300 years since religious people came to understand that being of a different faith, or being agnostic, did not disqualify one from public office.

Now we see that countries far away have had very similar experiences.

The Nigerian nation has woken up from the slumber of tragedy fatigue it was slipping into.

Earlier this month, Morar (LJ user natmorar) had a bizarre experience at Istanbul International Atatürk Airport, which she has described (RUS) on her blog