By the end of the decade, many Soviet bloc regimes had collapsed.

The economy confronts its most severe economic crisis in many decades.

MEXICO Drug trafficking has existed in Mexico for decades.

However, the majority of the Turkish population are of Turkish ethnicity.

For 25 years, the Bank tried to get governments out of agriculture, leaving impoverished peasants to fend for themselves.

The result has been a disaster in Africa, with farm productivity stagnant for decades.

CAMBRIDGE Capitalism is in the throes of its most severe crisis in many decades.

The solutions will not be easy, and the effort must last over many decades in all parts of the world.

Many analysts had expected emerging markets to generate exponential growth over the next decade.

For the first time in decades, the Greek government has been able to pay for its expenditure with its own revenues.

However, over the two decades since the introduction of the flag, many alternative interpretations of the symbol have been offered.

I'm the artist of the decade.

In the Arab world, authoritarian governments have deprived people of political, civil, and intellectual freedoms for decades.

VIENNA US President Barack Obama has injected fresh momentum into efforts stalled for a decade to bring about nuclear disarmament.

With prices for basic foodstuffs at their highest levels in decades, many urbanites feel well rewarded by farming.

The challenge now is to reinvent the car so that it remains a proud totem of freedom and safety in the decades ahead.

Hans Rosling The good news of the decade?

But in future decades, priorities will change.

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A screen shot from a 1986 LEGO sports cartoon produced in Hungary.

We have survived this way for over a decade now.

Few believe that the PA and Hamas s main rival, Fatah, will be willing or able to make such an agreement for decades.

In recent decades, some of the most dangerous work has been shipped overseas (ironically, much of it to China).

Many were cheerful, many contented and happy, many were in ecstasy and many dissatisfied and miserable.

For more than a decade, Italy has been ruled through a bipolar political system.

What is at stake is decades of financial integration in Europe.

The country bore the yoke of tyranny for two decades.

I worked in this company for three decades.

They know they could be next.

(a) To promote the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development and the International Decade for Action, Water for Life

How they passed from the scene, however, was often very different, and these differences can shape societies for years and decades to come.

A lot of people were arrested, a lot of people were victim of repression.

Klaus s vision of democracy had the upper hand for most of the past decade.

Another opportunity was missed later in the decade.

The country has been transformed profoundly in the recent decades.

Even faster growth will take place in the coming decades.

For more than a decade, Pakistan and the US were close allies.

Now it is more appropriate to describe that experience as the lost decades.

China may have seemed a miracle over the past decade.

Again, Bandura recognized this years ago, decades ago.

A lost half decade is quickly turning into a whole one.

By the end of the decade, 706 industrial plants were destroyed.

In recent decades, that strategy has proved remarkably successful.

Recalling also that 2005 marks the mid point of the Decade,

CAMBRIDGE For the first time in decades, a United States senator will become the next American president as all three of the remaining candidates Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John McCain are members of the Senate.