Would any institution be capable of instilling a permanent crisis mentality lasting decades, if not centuries?
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Eco-systems (such as Prince William Sound) recover from oil spills to a substantial degree, and within decades, not centuries.
And second, the new and growing boom in hydrocarbon production in the United States and elsewhere promises to push peak oil decades, if not centuries, into the future.
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As revolutionary as it is, the Internet does not make centuries-old laws of war obsolete or irrelevant.
Bin Laden's single narrative of a war on Islam by the West also purports to explain all the problems of the Muslim world: for example, that the long-running war between Russia and the Chechens is not a centuries-old imperialist land grab by the Russians but is rather a Western war against Islam.
World War I transformed the Middle East in ways it had not seen for centuries.
And not even their centuries of independent heritage can save the local people from that.
Fashion here has not changed for centuries and the indigenous women still wear the long stiff furry black skirts, cummerbunds and embroidered satin blouses favoured by their ancestors.
They almost universally do not factor in the other emissions from burning fuel, even though they are more potent, because they exist in much smaller quantities and they also do not persist for centuries as will CO2.
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Georg Kaser, a glaciologist at the University of Innsbruck, explains that a timescale of centuries, not decades, is far more plausible for the Himalaya.
Women gave birth for centuries, not everyone needed a C-Section either.
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For most of the Middle Ages (ie the Fifth to Fifteenth Centuries) not only did the Church not bother pursuing so-called witches, but its teaching was actually that witches did not even exist.
From their stately homes atop thrones, adorned with crowns and jewels, royal family members have for centuries been not only the pride of a nation, but also the very symbol of its heritage.
"It's nothing new --- humanity has been facing these problems for centuries, if not millennia, " he said.
The judge said he would not sentence Sandusky to "centuries in prison, although the law will permit that".
In 1621, Indian guests outnumbered Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving (which did not get its name until centuries later).
As Netanyahu read a facsimile of a scroll, Obama marveled that the Hebrew language had not changed much over the centuries.
Like his biomorphic fortification studies, also in the exhibition, his design for San Giovanni anticipates spatial and geometric ideas that would not be fully explored for centuries.
Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.
But while the book points out that the Gospels do not support the presence of animals at Jesus' birth -- a detail apparently added in later centuries -- the pope does not suggest they should be thrown out of the Nativity scene, Speciale said.
As the prophet Isaiah said: seven centuries before Christ did not come from the balance of forces, but from justice.
Those living in California may be curious to know that for more than two centuries their homeland was not attached to the West Coast mainland but was thought to be an island, drifting free in the Pacific.
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In France, centuries of feudal privileges did not disappear at the birth of the Fifth Republic.
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These findings suggest investigators not only can uncover new details from centuries-old human remains, but can also help identify crime victims, scientists added.
Islam has not been a global power in four centuries.
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Economists from the 19th and mid-20th centuries can be forgiven for not anticipating an interconnected digital realm like the Internet with its p2p distributed architecture, but modern economists cannot be.
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But although the new boron-based glaze now costs only a third as much as the traditional lead-based mix, getting people to change a centuries-old tradition is not easy, says Eduardo Berrocal of Fonart.
It's not the first time that Antwerp's centuries-old diamond trade has been targeted.
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