As alcohol ceased to be a cultural symbol, the appropriate regulation of alcohol ceased to be an ideological issue.
Indeed, it has long since ceased to be of central importance even to the local area.
However, after applying the methodology in reverse, the world ceased to be the same.
Latin America has long ceased to be a primary concern for U.S. foreign policy makers.
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Has the excuse of "I was only following orders", ceased to be a legitimate legal defence?
Somewhere along the way, weather ceased to be part of the news and became part of entertainment.
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Mr Blair said it was crucial that Saddam ceased to be an obstacle to peace in Iraq.
He ceased to be so upon spending a few days in Yosemite with a chap named John Muir.
Benedict officially ceased to be the Pope at 20:00 local time (19:00 GMT).
Latin America has long since ceased to be merely a drug producer, with consumption rising fast in recent years.
Over the decades dealing with brokers, money managers and other financial advisers ceased to be limited to the wealthy few.
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With the collapse of the Soviet Union, nuclear competition between Washington and Moscow has ceased to be a central concern.
When Great Britain ceased to be an empire and its power declined, the United States emerged as the new power.
If insurance companies ceased to be profitable, their extinction would shortly be forthcoming and all individuals would be worse off.
What will he mean in a perhaps not too distant time when homosexuality has ceased to be a conversation stopper?
After the Bretton Woods system collapsed in 1971, trade imbalances ceased to be much of a constraint on the developed world.
The designs ceased to be novel, the excitement wore off and the chain ended up with a sluggish pile of inventory.
Americans in growing numbers feel a nostalgic heartache for qualities that might indeed have ceased to be in our society and culture.
In the sixth century Liqian ceased to be used as a placename.
When that ceased to be so, repeated child-bearing was no longer necessary.
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From then on he ceased to be regarded as Mr Hussein's successor.
But the studios have long since ceased to be vertically integrated behemoths.
Private equity still has a long way to go, though, until the industry has ceased to be a source of fear and misapprehension.
But the preacher challenged that decision and eventually won, arguing that he had been left stateless because he had long ceased to be Egyptian.
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With a notable exception (more on that in a bit), Resident Evil 6 showed that the main characters of the series have ceased to be interesting.
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When the Thames ceased to be the great commercial artery of the city in the middle of this century, the city turned its back on the river.
The lead time for publishing a disc, however, was so long that the CD content ceased to be news and resided more in the realm of reference material.
Guillaume would have been a bond of union, he always had a quality of keeping people together, and now that he was gone everybody ceased to be friends.
He's ceased to be an adviser to a private equity firm, and given up a directorship at Compass catering group, while also giving up his cancer charity role.
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