Sami was talking in the past tense.

The draft was a sugarcoated version of a previous text, proposed last June.

Photo by amaliniii. Taken at this years Instameet, held in Negombo.

In a referendum held earlier this week, Colombians rejected Santos' peace deal.

137. Welcomes the efforts of a number of donors during the past year to the programme

Global Voices was able to report the impact of some of these flood disasters in the past year.

In the past decade, these countries have, as OECD research has shown, become dependent on Chinese growth.

For example, the Spanish verb volver has the form volví in the past tense but vuelvo in the present tense (see Spanish irregular verbs).

When she thought of the past, she dwelt with pleasure and tenderness on her former relations with Levin.

I have understood the Power that not only gave me life in the past but is giving me life now.

At this point she recollected her past with Karenin and how she had effaced the memory of him.

A second issue was China s decision not to cooperate at the United Nations conference on global climate change in Copenhagen last December.

Those who invested and reinvested their money in America s stock market over the past decade have nearly doubled it, even after taking account of inflation.

At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, world leaders saw climate change, for the first time, topping the list of global concerns.

Meanwhile, Singapore also experienced some flooding last year but authorities used the word ponding instead of flooding to describe the situation in the city.

International speaker, Jehmu Greene, talks about the power of youth voices in social change at the National Youth Forum in November 2015.

The recent era of global finance perhaps we should speak of it as being past? differed from the financial surge of a century ago.

THE PARTICULARS THE PRINCESS SHCHERBATSKAYA LEARNT about Varenka's past and about her relations with Madame Stahl, and about Madame Stahl herself, were the following

Huo participated in an online propaganda training organized by the Shandong branch of the Communist Youth League from June 29 to July 2.

Earlier today, November 2, 2013, Navalny announced outright that he will not attend this year s Russian March, scheduled for November 4.

Kuwaiti human rights defender Hadeel Buqrais received a rash of online threats after she took part in a march in Kuwait City calling for women s rights in Saudi Arabia.

On the first round of voting on November 21, 1998, Vancouver Whistler had 26 votes, Quebec City had 25 and Calgary had 21.

Meanwhile, the significance of the reconciliation agreement signed last May by Hamas and Fatah, the secular nationalist movement that controls the Palestinian Authority, remains uncertain.

China caught the world s eyes with its high profile global forum on the so called Belt and Road Initiative in Beijing on 14 15 May 2017.

In an impressive tour de force before the European Parliament last January as President of the EU's Council of Ministers, the radical turned diplomat put things in order again.

We can point to three factors, each of which can take roughly one third of the credit for annual real returns of 6 , rather than zero, over the past decade

One comforting reflection about her conduct had come to her in the first moment of the rupture, and when she now remembered the past she also recalled that reflection.

A tremendous victory for the people of Guatemala and a continuation of what I believe has been a pretty remarkable year plus of human rights advancement in the region.

The Global Voices virtual, community driven newsroom worked hard this year to build understanding across borders and language barriers through stories like these and more.

President Barack Obama s first visit to China last November, in which he accepted the role of pliant suitor at the court of the emperor, strengthened the impression of a deal between today s great power and tomorrow s.

At the Copenhagen climate summit last December, don t forget, a deal of sorts was cobbled together by the US and the emerging economies over the EU s head, even though Europe had the most advanced set of proposals on tackling climate change.

So for example, if I'm speaking in English, I have to speak grammatically differently if I'm talking about past rain, It rained yesterday, current rain, It is raining now, or future rain, It will rain tomorrow.

Why did the Greek government concede to terms that not only controverted its own promises, but also closely resembled those that voters had overwhelmingly rejected in a popular referendum barely a week earlier?

There had been in his past, as in that of every man, actions which he realized were bad, and for which his conscience ought to have tormented him but the recollections of those bad actions did not torment him nearly as much as these trivial yet shameful memories.

Ri Yong Ho told the world body's annual General Assembly that North Korea had taken significant goodwill measures in the past year, such as stopping nuclear and missiles tests, dismantling the nuclear test site, and pledging not to proliferate nuclear weapons and nuclear technology.

LONDON One question has dominated the International Monetary Fund s annual meeting this year in Peru Will China s economic downturn trigger a new financial crisis just as the world is putting the last one to bed?