Whereas the Middle Kingdom is proudly regaining its former global status after centuries of decline, Russia is defiantly trying to resurrect its former imperial status, but in a manner that appears doomed to fail.

We're against lying, but we're covertly for it in ways that our society has sanctioned for centuries and centuries and centuries.

In deciding to visit Ghana, a former British colony and a leading node in the global slave trade of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Obama bypassed the Kenya of his father.

In, a month, you've grown centuries' worth.

Four Centuries of Clinical Chemistry.

In your eyes, we have become a thousand centuries smaller,

Christianity grew rapidly in Sicily during the next two centuries.

It has been cultivated and consumed for centuries in the region.

More recently, additional cultural influences came from the United States and Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, due to the growing influence of the former on the world stage and immigration from the latter.

In deciding to visit Ghana, a former British colony and a leading node in the global slave trade of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Obama bypassed the Kenya of his father. Kenya is embroiled in bitter tribal disputes, and saddled with a brazenly corrupt government.

In the ensuing centuries, Iceland became one of the poorest countries in Europe.

After the Reconquista in 1492, Muslims did not live in Spain for centuries.

This aggressive, fundamentalist path is inexorably leading Pakistan back centuries in time.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, lamaseries were built throughout the country.

Religious persecution was common in previous centuries, and still occurs in some countries today.

Arab and Indian Muslims had traded in Indonesia and China for many centuries.

Over the centuries, a unique Fijian culture developed.

This is how the Western world became democratic in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

By the standards of centuries ago, we live in a world of unbelievable wealth.

The remarkable increase in agricultural productivity over the past two centuries demonstrates this clearly.

There were 14 famines in India between the 11th and 17th centuries (Bhatia, 1985).

There is a stone church on Kakskerta, constructed in the 17th and 18th centuries.

In earlier centuries, docks were built on the banks of the Nieuwe Maas river.

In certain areas, such as the elimination of hunger, we could be centuries away.

It took the Romans nearly two centuries to complete the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, though they had control of it for over six centuries.

The use of Damascus steel in swords became extremely popular in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Further epidemics of the disease occurred in North America in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.

Aside from the atomic bomb, this is the most dangerous security development in two centuries.

For seven centuries, Hungary and Romania have been engaged in wars over territory and peoples.

Russia s elites still largely think in the power categories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

In the next two centuries, Sweden was designated by Baroque architecture and later the rococo.

Over the centuries, Anne has inspired or been mentioned in numerous artistic and cultural works.

This usage continued during the advent of modern scientific method in the last several centuries.

Given centuries of turmoil in China, today s leaders will do everything in their power to preserve stability.

Agriculture and trade flourished in these centuries, and Piacenza became one of the richest cities in Europe.

The book s plot spans two centuries of revolution. Then, suddenly,

Nearly two centuries have passed since Tocqueville wrote his masterpiece.

China has been trading with Southeast Asian countries for centuries.

It remained the sole athenaeum of southern Italy for centuries.

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Similarly, Spain ran persistent deficits in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, paid for by Andean silver.

LONDON Two centuries ago, Napoleon s arrival in Egypt heralded the advent of the modern Middle East.

English folklore is the folk tradition which has developed in England over a number of centuries.

Hand written books from the early centuries became a cultural and a national phenomenon in Georgia.