Those days are gone.

Those days are over.

That America may be gone for good.

Those days are gone.

That period is now over.

The days of revolts may have passed the days of reckoning lie ahead.

The old proletariat and the old bourgeoisie are gone.

Gone also are the violent street protests and mass movements against globalization.

In a word, it appears that the Reagan Thatcher period is over.

The heady days of conservative economics are over for now.

Those days are gone. But Davos remains a good place to get a sense of the global zeitgeist.

And when, after the collapse of communism, the end of history seemed near, ideological politics was thought to have vanished forever.

The good old days when Trotskyites and Socialists found common ground in bashing the United States are over.

Lenin and communism have passed away, but that cynical indifference to suffering when profits are involved remains.

As Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, has put it, The conventional wisdom is that Europe s hour has come and gone.

Indeed, the days when we in Britain thought it was normal to have an unemployment rate of 2 have long since passed.

Later, once he feels that all aspects of conventional society are gone, he is left alone to his animal urges.

To say that free rider problems are gone, or that multinational agreements are no longer desirable, would be incorrect.

The accountability moment has passed, he claims, and he is ready to confront tyranny throughout the world according to his own lights.

Not long ago, one might have concluded that, at least in Europe, there were no taboos left.

Those structures are gone forever, but a liberal democratic order cannot succeed through situational politics built on popular resentments.

The days when a country could depend on large scale American financing are over.

Gone are the 1990 s, when for a brief moment in the immediate aftermath of the end of the Cold War, the world looked as if it would be permanently peaceful and unconcerned with power.

The ideological and military confrontation that underlay it is gone, but the geopolitical rivalry that it entailed has returned to the fore.

Today, there are at least 18, including South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, Benin, Mali, Ghana, Senegal, with Liberia the most recent to join the group.

In a highly evolved global community, and especially in this new millennium, it is high time that massive killings and crimes against humanity become things of the past.

Those bodies reflect a cold war era gone by and have long since outlived whatever usefulness they may once have had.

For them, to say Russia is back means that the humiliating Yeltsin years are over, and that they now must be treated as equals, particularly by the United States.

The idea of strong man government a regime that maintains order, and that the rest of the world likes to deal with because it is predictable has gone.

Gone are the days when military muscle and the politics of subversion could secure US influence in Latin America or anywhere else.

The dream of peace, the nationalist fervor, and the purported religious redemption that animated Israel s political combatants for a half century are gone, replaced by a resigned pragmatism.

And, while many will remember when a Chinese leadership transition was a political and cultural curiosity that had few direct economic implications for the world s major powers, those days are long gone.

If so, the referendum s outcome should convince Erdoğan that the balance of power in the country has changed for good, and that the days of strong arm tactics by the secular establishment are gone forever.

And following a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15 that Erdogan argues Gulen organised, this means the days of Gulen linked institutions in Azerbaijan are effectively finished.

That era of strategic rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union gave way to one in which the US possessed far greater power than any other country and enjoyed an unprecedented degree of influence.

Consistent with this new mindset, the PBOC s unwillingness to put a quick end to the June liquidity crunch in short term markets for bank financing sends a strong signal that the days of open ended credit expansion are over.

Those days are gone. The distortions and distributional issues are set to become more pressing as the size and impact of the major emerging economies increases, owing to their return to rapid growth, and as the advanced countries experience an extended period of sluggish performance.

Unlike herpes viruses, which can remain inactive in the body for months or years before reappearing, molluscum contagiosum does not remain in the body when the growths are gone from the skin and will not reappear on their own.

President Bush regards his reelection as an endorsement of his policies, and feels reinforced in his distorted view of the world. The accountability moment has passed, he claims, and he is ready to confront tyranny throughout the world according to his own lights.

To say that free rider problems are gone, or that multinational agreements are no longer desirable, would be incorrect. But real parallel progress, driven by necessity and self interest, is becoming the most likely medium term path.

The days of Pax Americana in the region are over, which means that avoiding a regional explosion will require mobilizing the major international actors that favor diplomatic solutions for the Arab Israeli conflict and for Iran s quest to become a legitimate partner in a new regional system.

The real message was that the US government would contribute very little financially to the region s economic recovery. The days when a country could depend on large scale American financing are over.

The emotional debates over shock therapy vs. gradualism have been replaced by a broad consensus that, while we need to exploit windows of political opportunity, not everything can be done at once, and reversal is always a threat.

Lenin once said that capitalists were so cynical that they would sell the Soviets the rope with which they would hang them. Lenin and communism have passed away, but that cynical indifference to suffering when profits are involved remains.

China recognizes that it no longer makes sense to stay with its current growth strategy one that relies heavily on a combination of exports and a massive buffer of dollar denominated foreign exchange reserves. Three key developments led the Chinese leadership to this conclusion