For decades, Saddam and his Sunni minority had imposed their will on Iraq, carrying on a 14-century tradition of Sunnis controlling Mesopotamia despite a Shiite majority.
Under a decades-old agreement, Palestinian refugee camps are supposed to administer and police themselves. Lebanese troops are technically not allowed to enter them.
The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.
I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.
One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.
The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years.
I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity that builds throughout the decade.
The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers.
While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.
If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women." (Keynote speech at luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)
I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.
So, all during the '90s and, you know, for the first half of this decade, we had opportunities to get evacuation plans in place, better communications in place.
I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.
If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.
I was a personal trainer for about a decade. I competed in powerlifting, and I did a bodybuilding competition. I was heavily entrenched in the personal training world.
Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.
I'd lived in Portland on and off for a decade before I'd even heard of Vanport. It was this town of 20,000 people that washed away from north Portland.
The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.
In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to ...
