Over the past four years, pro-Russian parties in Ukraine have won control of most levers of power.
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But over the last few years, pro-Syrian forces have been on the ascendant.
House Democrats were wrong to exchange 30 years of pro-life statutory protections for a piece of paper from the most pro-abortion president in American history.
After two decades of plunder under Ferdinand Marcos, six years of ineptness under Aquino (scion of one of the country's biggest landowning families) and six years of pro-big business policies under Ramos, the small people may finally have their say.
Plenty has been said or written on cloud computing in recent years pro, con and somewhere in between.
He has just one PGA Tour win and no Majors since that fateful 2009 night after racking up 71 wins, including 14 Majors during his first 13 years as a pro.
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Flutie actually lasted 20 years as a pro, moving around among the USFL, NFL, Canada's CFL and back to the NFL. He had success in Canada and during his second NFL stint, when he made the Pro Bowl with the Buffalo Bills at age 36.
Six years ago, the pro- and anti-whaling camps were roughly equal in number.
Campaigners claim it is the fifth programme on the subject produced by the BBC in three years presented by a pro-euthanasia campaigner or sympathiser.
He was stripped of those medals though for violating the Olympic rules on amateurism when it was revealed he played two years of semi-pro baseball.
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When Saunders turned pro two years ago, after playing at Clemson, he approached his grandfather about working with him more intensely than they had until then.
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Specifically, broadcasters wanted the commercial breaks that had been built increasingly into football, baseball, hockey and basketball matches in the U.S. over 40 years of televising American pro sports.
When I was about 17, three years after I turned pro, my high school "careers" teacher scolded me in front of the entire class about jumping ahead in my workbook.
The killings helped fuel support for the Irish Republican Army during the early years of what became known as the Troubles, 30 years of violence between pro-British and pro-Irish forces.
There also have been at least 12 suicides involving former NFL players during the last 25 years, including perennial Pro Bowl defenders Junior Seau and Dave Duerson within the last 14 months.
The brutal treatment of prisoners has become a symbol for the perceived failures of Georgia's previous leaders: they started out nine years ago as idealistic pro-Western reformers, intent on clamping down on post-Soviet organised crime.
So it's good for the game, and I think that she's not going to find the type of resentment that Tiger Woods got in his early years when he turned pro by some of the players on the tour.
"I have enormous hope in this millennial generation they're progressive, thoughtful and they identify in their pro-choice values, " said Nancy Keenan, who will soon be stepping down after eight years as president of NARAL Pro-Choice America.
Another young, charismatic businessman had spent six years behind bars for his pro-opposition views.
In recent years he has stuck with pro bono public research, which he argues makes software more secure.
He was riding a scooter like a pro at 2 years old and then a two-wheeler shortly after.
It's been 25 years since Steven Schubert played pro football.
In terms of professional gaming, its viewership now outpaces that of legendary strategy title Starcraft, unseating the decade-old powerhouse in just a few years as the most watch pro-played game.
While numerous players have said recently that bounties have been a common, well-known part of pro football for years, people familiar with league operations said NFL investigators never had concrete information about bounties they felt they could prove.
When all is said and done, you will have spent several hundred dollars and waited several months (if not years) to get a downloadable version of Final Cut Pro X that vaguely resembles the older software you purchased several years ago.
Cuellar beat him in a disputed primary by 58 votes, and in the past two years, Cuellar really was a pro-Bush Democrat.
Ms Redgrave is well-known for her political activism and campaigning for human rights and follows last years guest director, the Burmese pro-Democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi, in that tradition.
Mr Kuchma himself won the presidency five years ago, running as a pro-Russian left-winger in a similar scrap against an unpopular but powerful incumbent who had also taken a solid lead in the first round.
So without further hedging I am going to go out on a limb and predict Phillips will win, not because he is better, but because in recent years the Idol voting has skewed pro-male, which I think will give him the slightest edge in what would otherwise be a dead heat.
"Attitudes toward this law were formed several years ago, the battle lines set, whether people like it or not factored to the pro- and anti-Obama stock prices years ago, " Cook said.
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