The lessons of the recent past are clear.

But Europeans must learn the lessons of the recent past.

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

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

And she looks back at recent history to compare the terror that has gripped her hometown

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

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

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

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

Here again, Iraq s immediate past history allows one to be optimistic.

I have had the opportunity in the recent past to place on record Canada's strong support for the enlargement of the Security Council.

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

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

Cambodia has turned a new page in its history, putting firmly behind it the darkness and tragedies of the recent past, and has emerged into the new dawn of its future.

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

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

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

Over the past year, significant transfer of competences has taken place, and more is planned for the near future.

In the recent past there have been events that gave rise to anticipation and expectation, much like a silver lining to dark clouds.

In Italy, we have recently witnessed a significant demographic drop caused by a tangible decrease in births.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Taking care of the elderly is a duty towards those who in the recent past bore the weight of our society on their shoulders.

Another historic advance was made just last month with the signing of a peace treaty by Israel and Jordan.

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

If the immediate past is a guide, one has reason for optimism in Iraq.

The efficiency of the Council in making decisions during the recent past has raised new expectations as to its ability to respond to crises.

In the recent past the peace keeping budget has experienced serious weaknesses that are clearly highlighted in the Secretary General apos s statement.

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

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

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

But nowhere is the contrast between the recent glorious past and the miserable present as spectacular as it is in France.

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

Global events in the recent past have reinforced, rather than diminished, our support for the principles enshrined in the Rome Statute.

Too often in the recent past, there has been a failure to take decisive action despite a declared willingness to do so when such action was both necessary and justified.

14. Special efforts have been made in the recent past to facilitate the delivery to Sarajevo of cultural goods, such as newsprint and ink.

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

I had the chance a little while back to ride in the Google autonomous car, which is as cool as it sounds.

The Eastern African coast, for instance, has in the recent past experienced a series of armed attacks, particularly in the waters adjacent to Somalia.

In the recent past, there had been a proliferation of new terminology that had not contributed to a better understanding of the development process and had led to the fragmentation of the conceptualization of development.

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