Back then, Egypt was closely aligned with the Soviet Union.

If too loose, a rule is merely ornamental.

On all three dimensions, protectionist policy was hemmed in.

Hirschman s central insights on development have held up extremely well.

Tourism The Maldives remained largely unknown to tourists until the early 1970s.

Hereditary monarchy, often backed by divine authority, has worked in the past.

It is generally agreed that the summit was largely a failure.

Historically, aid was discussed largely in terms of the total amount of money invested.

To a large extent, this collateral consisted of government bonds.

Hu Jia s political actions are much more modest than that.

The combined effect of these developments has been to erode Lee s reputation precipitously.

In the past, conflicts were largely inter State or inter empire.

I also want to pay tribute to all members the final document is very much their achievement.

Brazil s economic boom was largely a product of skyrocketing commodity prices.

I would also recall that in recent years the focus of the Security Council has been largely on Africa.

Since then, the idea has been largely dismissed by Western powerbrokers.

Whether democracy will ensue is much more dubious.

We had the financial crisis, and some of the factors cited by Bernanke have substantially reversed.

Recent experience with the euro as an official reserve asset is instructive.

I think that the comments of the various delegations were very clear and largely go in the same sense.

MINUGUA relied heavily on the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme throughout the life of the Mission.

In fact, it was largely a result of massive fiscal stimulus and credit expansion.

The uprising in 1952 is particularly revealing, because it was widespread and intensely popular, for it was directed against the much hated British.

They were responsible to a great extent for Britain s economic decline in the 1960 s and 1970 s.

We tend not to be bothered by people who are either vastly more successful or vastly less successful.

The calamitous US military experience in Iraq has left it strategically diminished.

On both counts, the new member states expected to benefit substantially from the EU system.

But, from the start of the uprising in February 2011, Libya has been politically atomized.

Second, Maliki s tenure has been worrying to those who believe in democracy and the peaceable transfer of power.

However, conditional cash transfer programs have been quite successful in improving various human development indicators.

Largely the same groups were responsible for the mass killing operations during the civil war, collectivisation, and the Great Terror.

That s pretty much the situation of natural language understanding at the time Reid joined Verity.

The adjustment that needs to take place is blocked.

And the impact could well spread.

She largely lived up to the promise.

Industry would benefit enormously if energy efficiency standards were demanding and continuously tightened.

These threats, which used to have a lot of political impact, are now much less effective.

That is why continuing uncertainty about the integrity of the eurozone, and the value of its members sovereign debt, is proving so damaging to its banks.

Perhaps most revealingly, while Kennedy s aura among women has dimmed, his wife s reputation has grown.

Both local and Western election monitors have said that the poll fell far below acceptable standards.

For six years, the voices of reason have largely been drowned out, with passions and delusions claiming primacy.

Virtually every instance of sustained high growth has been accompanied by a significantly depreciated real exchange rate.

Conversely, when democratic transition was attempted in a fragile and closed economic environment, the outcome was much worse.

Moreover, the negative argument that historical experience supports the case for protectionism is flawed.

This is to a large extent due to lack of data.