After half a century of life under the Castros, many Cubans have convinced themselves that nothing will ever change.
And is trade not free enough already after half a century of liberalisation?
After half a century of denial, Israel is quietly coming round to accepting some responsibility for the flight of the refugees.
Thein Sein's administration, which came to power in 2011 after half a century of military rule, has been heavily criticized for not doing enough to protect Muslims.
It has a population of a mere 2.5m, and it is struggling to reconstruct its economy after half a century of Soviet occupation that ended only in 1990.
After half a century of bringing their own tax codes increasingly into alignment with the federal one--essentially piggybacking on federal rules--the states are starting to go their own way.
Mr Bush has become the first American president to visit Lithuania, which along with its Baltic neighbours Latvia and Estonia won independence in 1991 after half a century of Soviet occupation.
Nonsense, reply other hard-headed Socialists such as Mrs Aubry and Mrs Guigou: after half a century with little progress, quotas, however unpalatable, are the only way of loosening the male stranglehold on power.
Since Mr Berisha and his right-wing Democratic Party won power by election in 1992, after half a century of the most dreadful dictatorship in Eastern Europe, progress has been fast if inevitably patchy.
So too is the political system that built and guided it: after half a century of almost unbroken power, the Liberal Democratic Party, having lost its purpose, is threatened with annihilation at the polls in the next few months.
Thein Sein's administration, which came to power in 2011 after half a century of military rule, has been heavily criticized for not doing enough to protect Muslims or stop the violence from spreading since it began with clashes between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Muslim Rohingya last year.
The government's struggle to contain the violence is proving another major challenge for President Thein Sein's reformist administration as it attempts to chart a path to democracy after nearly half a century of military rule that once crushed all dissent.
Since the violence, the religious unrest has expanded into a campaign against Muslim communities in other areas, posing a serious challenge to President Thein Sein's reformist government as it attempts to implement democratic reforms after nearly half a century of harsh military rule.
After a half-century, this remains a thrilling piece, and runs the scale of emotions from reverence to exaltation, all brilliantly executed by Ellington's elite corps of soloists.
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After a half century of observation, examination, and consultation, as a classroom teacher, university lecturer, academic advisor, pastoral counselor, and ER crisis counselor, I have concluded that our image filled minds are generated as complex mental holograms by our equally complex, functioning brains.
After a half century of revolution, the island state remains an economic wreck, locked in a time warp in which vintage 1950s American automobiles ply streets filled with weathered buildings unfamiliar with basic maintenance.
But after more than half a century of taxing rule, the King should be above such worries.
But today it stands as a model of urban decline, after a half-century of population loss, political mismanagement and poor city services.
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The Ludlow Festival, one of Shropshire's flagship annual events, has come to an end after more than half a century, it has been announced.
The recent upsurge in sectarian unrest in Myanmar has cast a shadow over President Thein Sein's administration as it struggles to make democratic changes after a half-century of military rule.
From 2006 through 2012, Philadelphia's population grew by 58, 897 after falling for half a century, with 20- to 34-year-olds' share of the population up to 26% from 20%, according to Census estimates.
Taiwan's economic miracle was helped by the mass of money that the fleeing Nationalists brought with them, by the infrastructure already in place in the island after a half-century of Japanese colonisation, by an American presence underwriting Taiwan's defence, and by ready markets in both Japan and the United States.
Then almost a half-century after determining that it was a supernova, astronomers figured out how the supernova proceeded.
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Mr McLaren died in January 2010 after a rugby commentating career with the BBC spanning half a century.
Half a century after "Giant" was made Levi's still uses James Dean's scenes to sell jeans.
Nearly half a century after China's invasion, it remains largely undefined and bitterly contested.
However, even more than half a century after Japan's wartime defeat, the problem of Japan's status remained unresolved.
Economic self-sufficiency the doctrine that informed Indian policymaking for nearly half a century after independence made co-operating with the neighbours unnecessary.
Half a century after the guns fell silent in World War II, Asia is enjoying a hard-won stretch of peace and prosperity.
After rising for more than half a century, British crisp sales peaked in 2003 and have since slipped by almost 8%, according to Mintel, a research group.
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