Chinaren is among one of them.

Little has changed since Putin returned to the presidency last year.

Security in Kosovo has improved considerably since last March.

What was happening in Cyprus since last Monday is a real tragedy.

The list of armed groups that recruit child soldiers has not become smaller since last year.

Cholera was reported in Haiti for the first time in over 50 years last October.

Since last year the fate of Nile University, Egypt's first research university, has been uncertain.

PARIS A year ago, when Nicolas Sarkozy was campaigning for the French presidency, he promised a rupture with the past.

Since last year people have been struggling against plans to construct a mosque within Validebag's boundaries.

Arab coalition forces have been pounding Yemen with airstrikes since March 26.

She opened this book store here last year. And she's been publishing books for Liberian children since 2011.

The horizontal and vertical gender segregation has not declined since the submission of the previous report.

In fact, the stock market bottomed out last winter.

The situation of the Comoros had improved considerably since last year, with the completion of the new Union structure.

Iraq is yesterday s problem, said one advisor to an Indian audience several weeks ago.

Since last December, Somalia has been in a de facto state of civil war.

For my part, I accepted the principle of reality long ago, without nostalgia and without minimizing the importance of what happened.

Every stone has been turned, in particular since the intensive consultations sparked last summer by the High level Panel's report.

The moderator observed that, since the early 1990s, the Security Council had been confronted with a growing and more nuanced workload.

Last year, for the first time in 15 years, less than one half of the oil consumed in the US was imported.

A lot has been said about the reform of the Security Council since the release of the report of the High level Panel last December.

Moreover, the number of children returning to school has increased from 4 million to approximately 5 million since last year.

A study published last year found that from birth, from the moment of birth, babies cry in the accent of their mother's native language.

The Chinese stock market has fallen 20 over the past year, to levels last seen in 2009.

For these provinces have now been, for the most part, cut off from international observation ever since the protests that wracked Tibet last spring.

Like Japan, the Bush administration s relatively moderate stance toward North Korea has changed since the talks broke down last year.

Many macroeconomists attribute the sustained decline in inflation since the early 1980 s to the widespread use of this strategy.

More than 170 Palestinians have died since the violence began in June.

The suspension of the Doha Round of World Trade Organization (WTO) talks since July is deeply disappointing.

Some other prisoners were denied the Eid visit since the beginning, like human rights activist Houd al Aqel, who was arrested back in March

More than 100 Palestinians, many of whom were women and children, were killed since Israel launched Operation Defense Edge against Gaza last week

Rates of asthma have plateaued in the developed world since the mid 1990s with recent increases primarily in the developing world.

for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.

For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago and your zeal hath provoked very many.

It is a fact and we have said it many times that there has not been one single serious ethnically related incident since last June.

However, as I said, the fact is that there has not been a single serious ethnically related incident since last June.

Since the 1990s private finance has shifted from international syndicated bank lending to international bond issues.

More people have been lifted out of extreme poverty in the past decade than at any time since the United Nations was founded.

The national security agencies have continued to acquit themselves satisfactorily since UNAMSIL transferred security primacy to them last year.

The subject of peacebuilding has received increasing attention since the High level Panel's report (A 59 565) last December.

Indian companies have long recognized the opportunities in meeting previously overlooked demand at the bottom of the pyramid.

Specifically, problems in the US housing sector have, since summer, undermined confidence in securitized assets.

This prospect may seem surprising, given that Japan has already lost two decades since its economy s bubble burst in the early 1990 s.

LONDON It is now almost one year since the European Union committed to stabilize Lebanon following last summer s war.

Anglophone Russia bloggers have been discussing social and political aspects of the catastrophic wildfires and the ongoing firefighting efforts in central Russia since early August.