I have watched the problems of international cooperation for a quarter century.

After 25 years of living without each other, reconciliation will not come immediately.

Both camps have stuck to their positions for at least a quarter century.

Ahmadinejad is a representative of the younger activists in the anti Shah revolution of a quarter century ago.

He emerged about a quarter of a century, which is about the same time that Uganda s President Yoweri Museveni came to power.

Over 40,000 were installed and still function a quarter of a century later.

Impressive. And the rate of technological evolution speeds up, so a mere quarter of a century after this, you get this, OK.

Owing to large repatriation movements, 2005 had begun with the smallest number of refugees in almost a quarter century.

But the world today is different from the world of 25 years ago, or even 10 years ago.

For more than a quarter century, Israeli policy has been in conflict with that of the United States and the international community.

The estimated ranges vary widely, even after a quarter century of scientific effort, owing to the complexity of the environment itself.

Not one incident of Greek Cypriot terrorism or violence against Turkish occupation has occurred in more than a quarter of a century.

But it is worth remembering that the saving rate averaged 9 in the quarter century from 1960 to 1985.

Second, economic policies have greatly improved. With few exceptions, gone are the days of dual exchange rates, hyperinflation, and extensive trade barriers.

Twenty five years ago, only Colombia, Costa Rica, and Venezuela were reasonably stable Latin American democracies.

That is, after a quarter century of high debt, income can be 25 lower than it would have been at normal growth rates.

Less than a quarter century after Francis Fukuyama declared the end of history, we seem to have arrived at the dawn of a new age of social and geopolitical upheaval.

The clock was shut down for renovation about a quarter of a century ago, and returned to service in February 2012.

Articulate intellectuals and groups such as labor unions and environmental organizations in the advanced economies have voiced anti globalization fears and sentiments for at least a quarter century.

Yet, despite 25 years of intense investment in structural biology, we remain unable to move from understanding molecules to an understanding of whole systems.

Some observers believe that this interconnectivity has now, after a quarter century, made the PC obsolete.

For a quarter century starting in 1950, the US Department of Defense to cite one crucial example combined both roles to build the underpinnings of today s digital economy.

Another significant challenge was Afghanistan, in terms of both counter narcotic activities and alleviating the suffering of a population emerging from a quarter century of war.

There are, for example, a larger number of democratically elected leaders in the NEPAD political leadership than there were when the Lagos Plan of Action was adopted a quarter of a century ago.

To add to India s woes, Salman Khurshid, the country s bungling foreign minister, initially made light of the deepest Chinese incursion in more than a quarter century.

After a quarter century of near paralysis, American legislators are close to agreeing on reforms that would allow 11 million undocumented migrants to earn citizenship.

NEW YORK The world is sinking into a major global slowdown, likely to be the worst in a quarter century, perhaps since the Great Depression.

LONDON For at least a quarter century, the financial sector has grown far more rapidly than the economy as a whole, both in developed and in most developing countries.

Maybe the stockholder base was too short term oriented a quarter century ago maybe the original 1.2 year (mean) average holding period was too short.

Latin American countries suffered a lost decade after 1982, and Japan has been stagnating for a quarter century both have survived.

Indeed, while the socialist left survived by uniting around the CHP, the conservative parties that largely dominated Turkish politics for a quarter century fell apart.

Such differences in 25 year growth rates are important if US GDP grows by a factor of 1.87 over the next 25 years, annual GDP will be 3.6 trillion ( 10,000 per person) higher than if it grows by a factor of only 1.58.

Stressing the importance of shared responsibility, he said that, in order to sustain that trend, Afghanistan needed the assistance of the international community, particularly for the poorest segments of the population which had suffered the ravages of a quarter century of conflict.

a quarter of a millimeter.

Quarter circle

Quarter moon

When Tony Blair swept to power in 1997, he was widely welcomed throughout Europe as the most pro European British Prime Minister since Edward Heath a quarter of a century earlier.

While this is not news to emerging markets, which have experienced many financial crises in the last quarter century, a half century of financial stability lulled advanced economies into complacency.

Why has this popular nationalism emerged? And why is it directed at Japan?

Which Asian Century?

What Asian Century?

Relations between the United States and Iran have been officially non existent since a group of radical students stormed the US embassy in Teheran 25 years ago this week taking sixty six Americans hostage for 444 days.

Over a quarter of a century, six additional protocols to this Convention have been adopted in addition to the main text, an achievement not so far surpassed by other similar instruments, thanks to the joint efforts of the High Contracting Parties and the international community.

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A quarter century later, President George H.W. Bush, considering how best to roll back Iraq s invasion of Kuwait, drew an analogy with Vietnam, where the absence of an exit strategy had caused US forces to get bogged down.