The world is passing through the greatest economic crisis in decades.

The most populous state in Brazil, São Paulo, is going through its worst water crisis in decades.

This is the chance of a lifetime to break through the cynicism that has pervaded American politics for decades.

I was of the generation in my country that lived through the transition from dictatorship to democracy four decades ago.

If they follow through, as I expect, there will be no return to the strategies of the last two decades.

There should also be some understanding for what Russia and the Russian people have gone through over the past two decades.

Asia s economies have, of course, become much more integrated in recent decades, particularly through production for global supply chains.

Sub Saharan Africa is breaking through to sustained development creating a new frontier of growth after decades of stagnation.

Despite decades of effort, the process of trial and error through bilateral and conflict management approaches has always ended in frustration.

For decades, Israel dealt with this risk through effective air defenses and disdain for its adversaries ability to strike Dimona.

Globalization proceeded at a rapid pace through much of the last century, and at a particularly accelerated rate during its last two decades.

After three decades of spectacular economic growth, many Malays have become prosperous and content not only through secular capitalism, but through the country s renewed sense of Islamic identity, one which for the most part embraced modernization.

According to Zheng Guoguang, the Director of the China Meteorological Administration, Science and technology will answer the prayers of those living through the harshest drought in decades.

I was of the generation in my country that lived through the transition from dictatorship to democracy four decades ago. For us, the European Union was a dream.

Moreover, the Commission on Human Rights has been a textbook case of political manipulation through gross selectivity and the application of double standards over the past several decades.

But if you look at that graph that goes down and down and down, that's what we've done to this species through overfishing over many decades.

PLATO was designed and built by the University of Illinois and functioned for four decades, offering coursework (elementary through university) to UIUC students, local schools, and other universities.

Southern governors countered that the north had controlled the country through more than three decades of authoritarian rule and that a southerner should hold the presidency for years to come.

These missiles, affordable and widely available through a variety of sources, have been used successfully over the past three decades both in military conflicts, as well as by terrorist organizations.

Two Decades from Warsaw

Likewise, for decades, baseball games have begun with the national anthem but now, two thirds of the way through the game, fans are asked to stand again and sing God Bless America.

For five decades, its democracy has not been premised on a daily test of ideas whether between political parties or through grassroots engagement that is then confirmed at the ballot box.

Muslim majority Indonesia lost its Catholic majority East Timor through Western political intervention, but its claims to East Timor were tenuous, as it only invaded the island a few decades ago.

On adaptation, he pointed out that households have been implementing different technologies for adaptation for decades, and that many decisions on adaptation are taken at the community level through farm associations.

The third dimension of public diplomacy is the development of lasting relationships with key individuals over many years or even decades, through scholarships, exchanges, training, seminars, conferences, and access to media channels.

Indeed, one of the first decisions taken by Egypt s interim government was to allow an Iranian vessel to cross into the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal for the first time in three decades.

South South cooperation has been growing over the last two decades, and through that mechanism many avenues have opened for enhanced trade relations and cooperation in the transfer of know how and technology.

For more than three decades, Indonesian reformists struggled against the crushing weight of an authoritarian regime, until it became clear that our only way out of the Asian crisis was through democratic reform.

Four decades of oil flow

This is the chance of a lifetime to break through the cynicism that has pervaded American politics for decades. But if Obama fails to make good on his promise of change, it will be decades before the electorate again places its trust in a candidate who claims to be different from the usual run of politicians.

For decades, Friedman remained stranded in the intellectual wilderness, spurning the postwar Keynesian consensus that governments should use fiscal policy to manage aggregate demand a view that sustained statist economic policies through the 1970 s.

The nuclear energy industry s decline began decades ago.

It served the world well for many decades.

Dollar Diplomacy and Japan s Lost Decades

It lost its innocence decades ago.

For decades, government has been demonized.

These offenses were perpetrated decades ago.

The winds of global change began sweeping through Asia roughly two decades ago, first in East Asia, then engulfing China, and in the course of the 1990 s blowing on to South Asia, most importantly India.

The Scandinavian countries showed the way two decades ago.

The style came to dominate in the following decades.

The city has continued to grow throughout the decades.

Palestine was six decades ago ours! Palestine was the place pilgrims to Mecca used to stop by six decades ago on their way to and from Hajj. Palestine, which was just a few decades ago administratively under Egypt's rule.

That was two decades before the first Opium War.

Decades later, the new order was still in flux.

The Venezuelan term malandro has transformed in recent decades.