But imperial fatigue after Iraq and Afghanistan has left its imprint.

NB We have helped create a clothing workshop where women imprint an indigo dye on fabrics.

Forensic evidence showed that an imprint of a bullet in the warehouse door was of a different calibre to the police weapons.

But the most lasting imprint they could leave is to give the International Monetary Fund a broader mandate after this crisis is over.

We will now see how Hu uses that framework and thus what imprint he leaves on the bilateral relationship in meeting the current challenges.

Hesitant to leave a large imprint in their wake, some ministries have no budgets, and ministers are reluctant to sign deals with foreign firms.

ANKARA Turkey put its imprint as one of the most influential countries not only on 2010, but on the first decade of the third millennium.

These predictions are in excellent agreement with observations by the WMAP satellite of the cosmic microwave background, which is an imprint of the very early universe.

His time at the United Nations was brief, but he left a profound imprint reflecting the capabilities of Lebanese diplomacy. He always defended his country, his region and the world.

And I watched my own young grandchildren now come along and they're, much to the distress of my children, they are acting just like we did. You know? You imprint them.

Outside Dobruja, the relatively small presence of Albanian Muslims also left a cultural imprint in 1921, the first translation of the Qur'an into the Albanian language was completed by Ilo Mitke Qafëzezi in the Wallachian city of Ploiești.

For example, pre modern Europe believed that a woman who had sex before marriage might carry the imprint of her lover within her, so that her child born in wedlock would resemble the earlier lover, rather than the husband.

The imprint of that leadership is certainly on the macroeconomic and institutional reforms undertaken in many countries during the last decade and on the adoption of the national, regional, and international anti corruption initiatives and public service charters mentioned previously.

Three centuries of racial intermingling have led to an African imprint on all the regions of our country, throughout which our people's faces reveal, in an indivisible mixture, their African and indigenous ancestry along with their Spanish genetic and cultural inheritance.

But what might Syria want? Like most Arabs, Bashar Al Assad views Israel from the perspective of pan Arab anguish at Palestinian dispossession, but also sees a chance to use the Palestinians to strengthen his regime s power by putting his own imprint on any settlement.

Opening markets to greater competition and rebalancing the roles of government and markets is the most promising strategy to achieve high income status in the coming decades. It would be hard to find a better framework for Xi and Li as they put their imprint on China s economic policy.