• Feeling its oats, the AKP abandoned Washington's protective umbrella and struck out on an independent neo-Ottoman course, aiming to be a regional power as in centuries past.

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  • But while many ornately dressed pontiffs in centuries past arrived in a fancy horse-drawn carriage, Francis rolled into a side entrance of the basilica complex in an open-topped white jeep.

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  • India possibly didn't realise they were up against a team whose batsmen were in peak and insatiable form - England batsmen had scored, for example, six double centuries in the past 14 months alone, compared to eight in the previous 21 years.

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  • For thousands of years, these ruins had been preserved, co-existing in the past few centuries with Islam in Swat.

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  • In past centuries, China was very innovative and developments included gun powder and the compass.

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  • This business will never be low-cost, and in past centuries the Windsor top management enjoyed extravagant perks.

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  • In past centuries, when separation was frequently not an option, there are many references to twins who grew up still joined.

    BBC: Twin separations: A history of risk

  • As there is no precedent in modern times for the resignation of a pope, ecclesiastical lawyers are having to re-examine very carefully the rules for papal elections laid down in past centuries and updated most recently by Pope Benedict himself, our correspondent explains.

    BBC: Vatican may bring forward conclave for next pope

  • Three times in the past two centuries Mexico's church has backed the losing side in its politics.

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  • In the past three centuries, for example, languages have become extinct or vanished at an increasingly alarming rate, especially in America and Australia.

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  • It involved countless volunteers, who scoured periodicals and books from the present day back to centuries past in order to track down every word.

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  • These two events have continued to help define the path of freedom, justice, and equality for millions of Americans in the past two centuries.

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  • The small town has been here for more than 1, 500 years, perched on a dramatic cliff top 1000-feet above the sea, and in the past few centuries has garnered a reputation as a popular escape for creative artists and musicians: Ravello has been a home away from home to Wagner, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Greta Garbo, Graham Greene, Leonard Bernstein and M.

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  • He told the audience, comprised mainly of young Palantir software engineers, that humans are still using many of the same fundamental technologies invented in the past couple of centuries, like the internal combustion engine or the airplane.

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  • But no such adaptive change is seen in collections of hoverflies made over the course of the past two centuries, suggesting that the imperfect mimics are stable in evolutionary terms.

    ECONOMIST: Insects and mimicry

  • But countries default on their debts all the time (there have been over 800 instances over the centuries, several of them in the past decade).

    FORBES: Will the Euro Fail in 2012?

  • While other young composers were plunging into new sounds, Sir Michael continued to immerse himself in the past, in the works of musicians of the 17th and 18th centuries, and finally, Beethoven, whom he had turned away from as a boy, fearing undue influence.

    BBC: World: Analysis

  • The menus show that the bountiful seas of centuries past have become more miserly in recent decades.

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  • Nor, despite the increase in average lifespan in the rich world over the past few centuries, is post-reproductive survival a modern phenomenon.

    ECONOMIST: Why women live so long

  • Lady Liberty, a gift from France in 1886, was one of the first sights seen by millions of immigrants who arrived in New York harbour over the past two centuries, hoping to gain entry into America.

    BBC: The Statue of Liberty, April 2009

  • While some papal elections centuries back lasted years, conclaves held in the past century have wrapped up in two to five days.

    WSJ: Vatican Begins Countdown to Conclave

  • In the past few decades, medical science has rendered obsolete centuries of experience, tradition, and language about our mortality, and created a new difficulty for mankind: how to die.

    NEWYORKER: Letting Go

  • If those proxies match global temperature measurements, then it would provide independent confirmation of the global warming trend of the past couple of centuries, without being tangled up in some of the difficulties involved in normalizing the measurements.

    FORBES: New Study Shows Independent Evidence Of Global Warming

  • In fact, cultures have been influencing each other for the past several centuries.

    ECONOMIST: Global or local?

  • It is this sense of otherness (amply displayed in Lakkis' splendidly curling, pencil-thin moustache - a relic of centuries past), that makes the Cretans, and especially those from the south, such good company.

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  • Although the flow of trade and people between Arabia and Asia had lost its relevance over the past four centuries, the rise of China and the resulting rise in oil prices are quietly reinvigorating them.

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  • Answering these questions have been at the core of Biblical scholarship for the past two centuries, and it appears that Biblical scholars may have a new tool in their arsenal for answering these questions.

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  • The kind of economic miracle posited today by the most optimistic new-paradigmists implicitly regards current innovations in networked computers and telecommunications as not merely on a par with the greatest breakthroughs of the past two centuries, but as greater and more far-reaching.

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  • On the contrary, most studies suggest that the past 25 years have seen a reversal in the trend towards widening inequalities which had been proceeding for two centuries.

    ECONOMIST: Rich man, poor man

  • Ponting scored 13, 378 Test runs at an average of 51.85, compiling 41 centuries, but he made just 32 at 6.40 in his final series as he struggled to regain his past heights.

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