The lessons of the recent past are clear.

But Europeans must learn the lessons of the recent past.

So these events in our recent past really are unique.

One has only to examine the recent past to see why.

Those are considerable achievements, given the realities of the recent past.

If so, the contrast with the recent past could hardly be starker.

The recent marked increase in diplomatic activity continued over the past month.

True, when compared to the recent past, party politics has become more polarized.

Natural disasters can strike anywhere, as we have witnessed in the recent past.

Fourth, the social gains of the recent past, while important, are far from sufficient.

Promotional work should continue and intensify, building on successful experiences in the recent past.

This concept has been broadened in the recent past, a process that will continue.

The situation affecting the Palestinian people has undergone dramatic change in the recent past.

I haven't seen the definition of an isosceles triangle anytime in the recent past.

In the recent past, the prices of these products have increased faster than steel prices.

However, the recent past has been a showcase for grave shortcomings in the treaty system.

This is a cumulative figure covering the past 10 years, and not just recent months.

Indices show sustained growth for a higher number of countries than in the recent past.

In the recent past, the Committee has met in Frankfurt, Tokyo, New Delhi and Warsaw.

How the situation will develop in the near future can be gleaned from the recent past.

Instead, it treated the Great Recession as similar to others in the recent past, albeit deeper.

Croatia has now taken a major step forward towards addressing the injustices of its recent past.

In the recent past, there were some 26 different federal agencies running their own payroll systems.

In the recent past, all sorts of creative attempts to energize the CD have not succeeded.

In the recent past, there has been some talk of the so called three State solution .

We should build upon the positive tendencies and ideas that have evolved in the recent past.

Such intellectual exercises would also be useful for analysing past achievements and for drawing lessons from the past and the recent activities of the United Nations.

Government deficits rarely exceeded 3 of GDP in past decades, and there were surpluses in recent years.

96. The overall economic performance of the LDCs over the recent past is characterized by continued stagnation.

However deep the hatred born of the recent or the distant past, reconciliation is the only alternative.

Let s examine the illness that leads certain EU leaders with questionable scruples to forget even the recent past.

These factors have led to an increase in trafficking in human organs and tissue in the recent past.

Especially in the field of peace keeping, the United Nations has learned important lessons in the recent past.

The leadership provided by such coordinators in emergencies in the recent past has proved to be extremely effective.

Important Al Qaeda operatives, like Ahmed Khalfan and Abu Farraj Al Libbi have been arrested in the recent past.

We have also seen, in the recent past, a steadily growing consensus in the resolution of many contentious issues.

And to show that this is relevant into the fairly recent past (although it may depend whether or not you argue that 150 160 years ago is a recent past), this right here is a direct quote from Abraham Lincoln (obviously one of the great

As recent as last week, more than 50 members of the Muslim Brotherhood organization were also detained after a recent Gaza rally, and more than 500 in the past month.

Before instituting such invasive regulation, we should examine whether past compensation structures really were the catalysts for our recent problems.

Moreover the influence of the country's Scandinavian neighbours was now much stronger than it had been in the recent past.

Those who called Puerto Rico a colony shut their eyes to the present, the future and even the recent past.

Only in North America has there been a recent and steady decline in crime rates over the past eight years.

Both organized criminal groups and terrorist groups are learning from past mistakes while probing recent defences erected by targeted nations.

quot Induction of alien mercenaries in Jammu and Kashmir, an integral part of India, has intensified in the recent past.

But major new injections of capital into the banking system are unlikely, owing to lingering fear from the recent financial past.