But at each end, they will get a nudge to tumble down - much like the Wall did two decades ago.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Zahid Ebrahim of the National Emdowment for Democracy says two decades later, U.S.support for General Pervez Musharraf revived anti-U.S.feeling.

VOA: standard.2010.07.08

In the nearly two decades since the Cairo conference, at least 17 countries have liberalized their abortion laws.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Japan hasn't seen,in Japan, we haven't seen the actual nominal GDP growth for as long as two decades,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

Aravind Eye Hospital has conducted mobile eye camps in villages across Tamil Nadu over the past two decades.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

They fled to Senegal two decades ago to escape clashes between black African and Moorish communities in Mauritania.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

The government plans to hold Burma's first election in two decades next year, but the new constitution ensures the military stays in power.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

Somalia,which has been plagued by civil war for nearly two decades, has Africa's third largest IDP population after Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Mr.Orban,47,told parliament that he realizes he takes over a country mired in political tensions and struggling to overcome its deepest recession in nearly two decades.

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

His research began with fruit flies, but over the last two decades, his focus has been on parasitic protozoa, single-celled organisms that cause major diseases.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

Determining Muse's true age is difficult because birth certificates are rare in Somalia,a country which has not had a functioning government for nearly two decades.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

Manuel Noriega spent most of the past two decades behind bars in the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

The drought, and nearly two decades of political unrest and economic neglect have left the Mudug region one of the poorest and least developed in Somalia.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

U.S.auto dealers, already reeling from one of the worst sales slumps in more than two decades, say the eight models account for 56 percent of Toyota's U.S.sales.

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

Angola has not had a presidential election in nearly two decades.

VOA: standard.2009.08.10

Statistics from Australia's National Tidal Center show sea levels have increased by 8.6 millimeters a year off Perth and by 8.1 off the tropical Kimberley region over the past two decades.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Economists say India's purchase of 200 tons of gold shows that the country has come a long way in the two decades since it was on the verge of defaulting on its international debt.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

The lucrative ransoms negotiated with the vessels' owners for the release of their cargo has fueled the piracy business in the country which has largely stagnated in violent anarchy for almost two decades.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

Clinton's keynote speech at a dinner organized by the Atlantic Council was more an appeal for unity among the expanded NATO alliance than a commemoration of the transformative events in Berlin two decades ago.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

"We believe that, with the experience of Thailand handling this situation in the past two decades, where at times there were several hundred thousand came over the Thai borders this is,on one hand,serious issue,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

"It has collapsed because of the conscious work of new generation of opposition inside which worked for two decades on building up an alternative system of information, knowing that's the most important,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Yettaw was facing seven years of hard labor for an uninvited visit to Aung San Suu Kyi's house where she has been detained for most of the last two decades despite international pressure for her release.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

The dominoes have been set up to run for one and a half kilometers in an area where the Wall once stood, and late Monday they will be toppled much like the Wall was two decades ago.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

But,as factory bosses are forced to offer higher pay to prevent strikes, (what does this mean for the faltering global economy?) The West has relied on cheap goods from China to help fuel the boom times of the past two decades.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

U.N.children's agency in Somalia Deputy Representative Hannan Suleiman tells VOA that unlike countries like Yemen that may run out of water entirely in the next two decades, Somalia is thought to have plenty of water underground to sustain people for many generations.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

Athens News Agency journalist Harry Theofanous says he cannot recall a worse crisis in the past two-decades.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

Rockwell's attention to detail created images that still tell stories, decades after they were created, much like the films of two of his biggest fans.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09