Burma installed a nominally civilian government in March 2011, ending almost half a century of military rule.
The adoration was put to the test in 1974 when Portugal emerged from half a century of dictatorship.
And is trade not free enough already after half a century of liberalisation?
And in half a century of development in sport, that's not a lot.
With more than half a century of history on their backs, the company seems to be doing a good job at rejuvenating itself.
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That's because Colombia has truly performed a miracle, emerging from half a century of armed conflict and horrific violence to a position of strong economic growth.
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.
In half a century of watching the auto industry, I've learned that there are people, many many millions, who just won't buy a car with the word "FORD" on the grille.
"With Xperia Z, we are bringing over half a century of innovation in TV, imaging, music, film and gaming to create a superphone experience that truly stands out, " said Kuni Suzuki, President and CEO, at Sony Mobile Communications.
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The Casey papers constitute a rich collection, documenting half a century of key events in American history, many of which were shaped by this man of unique talents -- whether employed on behalf of the national security or on Wall Street.
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Last year, a report by the United Nations Environment Programme said that over half a century of oil operation in the region, by firms including Shell, had caused deeper damage to the Ogoniland area of the Niger Delta than earlier estimated.
With those words David Cameron heralded his arrival in Algeria - the first Western leader to visit this country since the hostage crisis which left 38 foreigners dead and the first British prime minister to visit in half a century of Algerian independence.
After World War II, a generation of far-sighted leaders forged NATO, which has given us a half-century of security, and played a strong role in ending the Cold War.
Now, the hope is that a younger generation of politicians may be willing to take a more objective look back, even at the risk of upsetting a half century of orthodoxy.
Leeds went into the game on the back of shipping a half-century of points at home to London Irish last weekend but they showed no sign of being cowed when the opening whistle went at Franklin's Gardens.
In 2004 Klinsmann and his assistant coach, Joachim Loew, took over a Germany team that went winless at the European championship that year and remade a half-century of German strategy, producing a team that played proactively instead of reactively.
The logical solution would be to update the formula, to take account of half a century's worth of hydrology.
The final cut -- winnowed to 185 images for the show and 75 for the award-winning book -- shows the West's myriad faces thematically grouped into Legends, Encounters, Boundaries and Visions, corralling into categories an epic visual record of almost a century and a half of exploration of the American West with the camera.
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.
The prospect of U.S. self-sufficiency overturns a half-century of conventional wisdom.
Three months later, police unveiled a report exposing "vast, predatory and opportunistic" abuses by Savile across a span of half a century, involving some 450 victims.
When the Treaty of Rome was adopted half a century ago, one of the fundamental freedoms for citizens recognised by its six signatories was the right to work in another member state.
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Most of the previous half-century was a period of convergence.
Over a period of more than half a century, Bukowski, who was born in Germany and brought to America at the age of three, chronicled, in poems and novels, his life as a drifter and a drunk as he lurched through the mean streets of Los Angeles.
The State Geologist has the testimony of old residents of Long Branch, who state that they farmed on land which is now a half mile out in the water, showing a tremendous eating away of the beach in half a century.
With a half century of total war ending and something like peace breaking out politics loses its life-and-death drama.
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The 43-year-old jumbo jet design still whisks us across oceans and will, I expect, make it to a half-century of service.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) Adam Scott finished the job this time, and put an end to more than a half-century of Australian misery at the Masters.
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