Past conquest cannot be a legitimate basis for current rule.

Admittedly, the IMF s panel would have to look past America s current hypocrisy.

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.

To add insult to injury, current European leaders do not own their past decisions.

Kan assumed his current office in Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama s administration this past January.

My current work is a style I have developed myself over the past years.

Another basic consideration is that the programme should build on past and current rangeland management efforts in Jordan.

Besides, the current sentiment that the eurozone has gotten past the worst seems exceedingly optimistic.

In the past six months, the current round of the US dollar cycle entered stage three.

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. But which is the right template?

UNIDO's current stability and international prestige were largely due to the leadership of Mr. Magariños over the past eight years.

The current crop of left wing political leaders is different from the populist caudillos of the past.

French leaders have demonstrated an inability to communicate effectively or apply past experiences in analyzing current threats.

Iraq contends that Saudi Arabia has not provided evidence of past or current damage to subtidal resources.

China s current legal framework contributed to fiscal balance and financial stability in the past, and it continues to play a positive role.

In any year, some households are savers and others, especially retirees, are dissavers that use past saving to finance current consumption.

The time is ripe to explore again limitations on conventional forces, and to adjust them to current rather than past needs.

The truth is that a country s past failures do not influence investors if its current institutions and economic policies are sound.

One delegation highlighted the relationship between current and past areas of focus, such as protection and preservation of the marine environment and vulnerable marine ecosystems.

The current drought covering much of East Africa far more severe than past droughts has been directly associated with climate change.

If current trends persist, the BLS s report will continue to evolve from a snapshot of the past and present to a preview of the future.

Past and current debates on the reform of the Security Council have clearly shown that there is a widely shared view on several important points.

In the past, it was war, immense dislocation, and suffering that could weld nations. Is Europe s current crisis severe and dislocating enough to generate an analogous effect?

But it is precisely the mismatch between the EU s past achievements and its current distress that has fueled anger and led to its rejection by many Europeans.

It would also be important to consult stakeholders such as non governmental organizations, especially national NGOs, national institutions, and current and past members of the treaty bodies.

This leaves us trying to use patterns from past, dissimilar crises to try to infer the likely prognosis for the current crisis.

It is no accident that the current era looks so much like what followed dozens of deep financial crises in the past.

Japan s past predilection toward saving has long implied a large trade and current account surplus, but now these surpluses are starting to swing the other way.

Second, the US has run record current account deficits over the past decade, as the political elite Republican and Democrats alike became increasingly comfortable with overconsumption.

Instead, the current installment of Latin American socialism is all too likely to produce a re run of tragic episodes from the past.

The profound resemblance of the current malaise to the aftermath of past deep systemic financial crises around the world is not merely qualitative.

Amazon Watch reports that the current rate of deforestation threatens to push the Amazon past a tipping point from which it cannot recover.

A notable feature of the transition in Afghanistan is the failure thus far to effectively tackle impunity, either for past or current crimes.

After all, past investment shortfalls have to be made up and future oriented investments undertaken simultaneously a double burden that must be borne by the current generation.

However, even if the decision is in favour of a separate cooperative programme, lessons from past and current initiatives should be utilized in planning and undertaking the new activities.

This bizarre brew appears to have been concocted in an effort to reconcile the irreconcilable the current yearning for democracy with Russia s despotic past.

In the research conducted among the school age population in Republika Srpska, smoking has been observed from two angles smoking in the past and one's current smoking habit.

Our deliberations at this current session must be different from those of the past, given current developments with regard to armaments and real fears that terrorist groups might acquire weapons of mass destruction. The Committee thus has an even greater responsibility this year.

But such capital inflows threaten exchange rate overvaluation, rising current account deficits, and asset price bubbles, all of which have in the past led to crises in these economies.

For reasons that are now obscure, there is an unwritten rule that Commission presidents must be drawn from the ranks of past or current prime ministers.

Of course, this is partly because of the changes in the relative economic and political power of the US and China over the past decade, and especially during the current global economic crisis.

In distribution and logistics of many types of products, track and trace or tracking and tracing, concerns a process of determining the current and past locations (and other information) of a unique item or property.

The current state of affairs is all the more depressing because global economic growth in the past four years has been the fastest since the early 1970 s.

Over the past few days, however, she has become a pariah in the blogosphere for her reactions to the current crisis in Gaza, deemed as sympathetic to Palestinians.

The law in its current form favors the first past the post party to achieve an absolute (151 parliamentary seats) majority, provided it receives a 41 nationwide vote.