Nearly 20 years later, this patience has worn thin.

PARIS Could the world be on the verge of a new period of re ordering itself, similar to the one experienced nearly 20 years ago?

The color wall has fallen nearly 20 years after the collapse of the Wall that divided Germany and Europe.

The Lord's Resistance Army has been active in northern Uganda for nearly 20 years, and now it is acting regionally.

So we learn a lot from war, and I mention Rwanda because it is one place, like South Africa, where nearly 20 years on, there is healing.

Mobile phone coverage in Sub Saharan Africa, for example, has gone from nearly zero subscribers 20 years ago to around 700 million today.

Now you have to remember, this is 10 years before Heinrich Hertz proved the existence of radio waves 15 years before Nikola Tesla's four tuned circuit nearly 20 years before Marconi's first broadcast.

After all, this is Europe more than six decades after World War II, and nearly 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Nearly 31 years ago, on 25th December 1974, a powerful earthquake flattened towns along the Karakorum Highway and killed nearly 10,000 people.

Activists have been pursuing this approach to tackling global warming without success for nearly 20 years, most recently at last December s failed climate summit in Copenhagen.

The EU has worked for 20 years on these reforms.

Of course, without universal and coordinated international political, economic, and media support for these brave monks, all development in Burma may quickly be put back nearly 20 years.

However, after spending nearly 20 years as a powderman, and after a reorganization of the partnership by James Antoine Bidermann, he became head of the company in 1837.

Today, over a billion people are between 15 and 24 years of age and nearly 40 per cent of the world's population is below the age of 20.

The labor force is expected to increase by 32 over the next 20 years, whereas it will decline by 4 in industrialized countries and by nearly 5 in China.

Those dancing on the Wall, 20 years ago, made their choice.

It has now been over 30 years since a right to development was first proposed and nearly 20 years since the Declaration was adopted by the General Assembly by its resolution 41 128 of 4 December 1986.

GDP has nearly tripled over the past 20 years, but, with real wages rising at less than half this rate, growth has become decoupled from the fate of ordinary citizens.

But on average, girls get married with 20 24 years and boys 24 30 years of age.

Nearly ten years later, Japan is ready for strategic clarity.

In the last 20 years, this gap has been eight percentage points for China, compared to roughly four percentage points on average for emerging economies and nearly zero for most developed economies, where interest rates are fully liberalized.

I was held in prison for nearly 30 years on an island in the middle of the ocean.

He died at the age of 85 on 21 September 1957, after having reigned for nearly 52 years.

The average American is nearly 20 times richer than the average Chinese by the 1970s.

Nearly 20 countries are working towards defining what children should know prior to entering school.

Meles Zenawi, who hosted the summit, has ruled Ethiopia for nearly 20 years and has convinced no one outside his circle of cronies that his country's elections have been free and fair.

On March 12, 2007, The Rock appeared on WWE TV after nearly three years, via a pre taped promo shown during Raw .

These six international banks alone accounted for nearly 20 of the prime money market funds value.

A nearly indestructible behemoth outlasted Mussolini s regime and survived for 50 years.

Nearly every observer forecasts that this will continue over the coming years.

Attempts over 5 years lead to success in nearly 40 of people.

That tiny community has suffered nearly 1,000 such rockets in recent years.

On 20 June 1971, Azam reaffirmed his support for the Pakistani army by stating that 'the army has eradicated nearly all criminals of East Pakistan'.

Nearly three years ago, I decided to leave my comfortable job as a World Bank senior economist in Washington and come back to my country of birth, Ethiopia, after nearly 30 years abroad.

Sami spent the next years rebuilding a life nearly destroyed by the accident.

He then sought refuge in France, where he remained for nearly two years.

Recalling its resolution 61 185 of 20 December 2006 on the proclamation of international years,

In 2004, Taiwanese health authorities banned the procedure on people under 20 years of age.

The Lessons of Perestroika, 20 Years After

It is an armistice for 20 years.

So, somehow, for nearly two million years, we are killing animals without any weapons.

This has been replicated over and over and over again, for nearly 40 years.

Bricks with colorful designs that they plan to remain intact after nearly 3000 years.

In the last four years these centers have provided assistance to nearly 5,000 women.

Four of them, sentenced to 27 years' imprisonment, had already served 20 years, while one detainee had been sentenced to 5 and later to 20 additional years, and another one to 13 years.