Slaves were considered property.

Space travel was thought to be impossible.

The translators of the New Testament were considered heretics.

Flights to the moon were once thought absurd.

Many of these disorders were once thought to be rare, even non existent.

At that time, white bread and meat were considered a luxury.

On December 1, 2008, these positions were considered sergeant.

Collectively, we are helping children and communities once considered unreachable.

Until now, discovery was often considered the main goal of medical science.

In ancient Egypt, the day was reckoned from sunrise to sunrise.

For the longest time people have regarded science and humanities as being distinct.

According to US law, such actions would amount to reckless endangerment or culpable negligence.

Similarly, the spread of microfinance lending has made capital available to borrowers who until recently were not seen as creditworthy.

In 1989, incredible changes that were deemed impossible just a few years earlier were implemented.

Yet emerging economies, once considered much more vulnerable, have been remarkably resilient.

So concessions that were deemed legitimate and acceptable may now become illegitimate and unacceptable.

The example of the use of the Brazilian cerrado, once considered useless, augurs well for the African savannas.

Children with birth defects were labeled incurables, and confined for life to inhuman conditions.

This was also a novelty torture does not appear as a breach of a common standard, unfortunate but justifiable.

They have a sense of humor, and these are the kind of things which traditionally have been thought of as human prerogatives.

For decades, any election in which the party won less than 45 of the vote was viewed as a disaster.

Until 2007, the two Keck telescopes at the Hawaiian volcano, Mauna Kea, were the largest in the world.

The technologies of the Internet were thought to fragment societal forces rather than unite them in a common cause. And the regimes were considered to be too brutal, as we see tragically in Libya, to go down without a fight.

Other challenges loom. Issues that we once regarded as medium term are becoming more urgent.

Institutional investors have found it difficult to achieve positive real yields in any of the traditional safe haven investments.

And the regimes were considered to be too brutal, as we see tragically in Libya, to go down without a fight.

There were few domestic brands out there, and the ones that were, weren't regarded as tasteful by the young generation s standards.

There are others, including the question of inheritance taxes, which have long been regarded as a necessary component of a free society.

What originally entitled a university to corporate status under Roman law was its pursuit of aims that transcend the personal interests of any of its current members.

All of communism s imperfections were deemed temporary, just bumps on the way to the just society that was then being born.

This has not always been so. In the ancient Greek, Jewish, and Christian religions, women were perceived as inferior to men.

This time, the election was predominantly perceived as a referendum on the continuation of single party rule, and the AKP won 49 of the vote, providing it with a comfortable majority.

Moreover, from a diplomatic standpoint, the territories were regarded as bargaining chips ( land for peace ) to be used in achieving a negotiated solution.

Hughes, who was on a pitch count, pitched a scoreless third inning before being replaced by right handed reliever A.J. Achter.

NAIROBI Until the global financial crisis erupted four years ago, sovereign bonds had traditionally been viewed as reliable, virtually risk free investments.

Even in the US, a country that fancies itself as a model of democracy, African Americans were not truly enfranchised until the mid 1960 s.

In the past, risks with volatility of similar statistical magnitudes were considered to be fungible, and,could flow to whomever was prepared to bear them.

But if growth were higher and unemployment were falling, such scandals would not be treated as such a drama.

Today, economists are similarly troubled by unwanted ghosts, as they ponder the reappearance of economic ills long thought buried and dead.

Revulsion at government and traditional politicians hit the presidential contest like a tornado in the summer, flattening the campaigns of some who were once seen as serious contenders.

Dubbed the hyper president by bewildered media, he has launched a vast number of reforms, many of which were once considered political suicide.

In fact, social democrats were regarded as more dangerous than hard line conservatives, because their moderate left wing talk only served to postpone the revolution.

Indeed, we have lowered the boundary for overweight to include people considered normal a generation ago.

And although in the US, there s an image of college students as politically active or socially engaged, in Japan, it s the opposite.

Furthermore, experiments were never carried out against the rules but were performed always well within them otherwise they would not be recognized as experiments at all.