Again, Bandura recognized this years ago, decades ago.

Look a decade ago, look two decades ago markedly different.

We should not repeat the mistakes that were made six decades ago.

One of the most dreadful decades of Balkan history ended five years ago.

Yet we're still dealing with a lot of the same challenges as many decades ago.

It is still essentially the document that was drafted at the San Francisco Conference six decades ago.

It was a Japanese scientist who first undertook serious field studies of the Bonobo, almost three decades ago.

Until a few decades ago, it was possible to think of endogenous development, although the idea was debatable.

Mr. President, it was in your country, Sweden, just over three decades ago that environmental law was born.

As far as computers are concerned, whether Chinese checkers or chess, defeating humans was already a clinch decades ago.

We should recall that the last reform of the United Nations was in 1963, a good four decades ago.

Over two decades ago, the world insisted to Africa that markets must be liberalized, that economies must be structurally adjusted.

As of 2004, 81 of all positions in the military are open to women, compared to 56 two decades ago.

And in Papua New Guinea, they were making stone axes until two decades ago, just as a course of practical matters.

And this is an insight that came, about two decades ago, from a person that I'm very fortunate to work with, David Kaplan.

So, it was his generation of diplomats and leaders that established the United Nations out of the ashes of war six decades ago.

Decades ago when our motivation of life was to have food, we could never have the chance to pursue anything we are interested in.

While two decades ago the effectiveness of south south cooperation may have been limited, many developing countries have since acquired substantial technical and policy expertise.

Kavanaugh testified before Congress on Thursday, forcefully and emotionally denying an allegation from Christine Blasey Ford that he sexually assaulted her decades ago when they were teenagers.

I was of the generation in my country that lived through the transition from dictatorship to democracy four decades ago. For us, the European Union was a dream.

Several decades ago, the American political scientist Samuel P. Huntington argued that economic prosperity in developing countries with weak governing institutions would not necessarily lead to political stability.

And I decided, it was an old dream that was lingering, that was from so many years ago, three decades ago the only sort of world class swim I had tried and failed at back in my 20s was going from Cuba to Florida.

The challenge of putting youth at the centre of development strategies can be compared to the challenge, two decades ago, of putting women and gender issues on the development agenda.

To attain the agreed development objectives, there must be a renunciation of the ill conceived policies imposed on a number of developing countries under structural adjustment programmes begun three decades ago.

Nixon himself was probably not bothered by the nature of the Chinese regime four decades ago. The fact that the question must be addressed now attests to China s astonishing progress since then.

The reporter learned from the National Health Commission that the prevalence of malnutrition in our children and adolescents had reduced but the prevalence of overweight obesity had significantly increased comparing to decades ago.

Bankruptcy legislation in China started right after Deng Xiaoping launched his pro market reforms three decades ago. The Law on Enterprise Bankruptcy (Trial Implementation), the first of its kind, was enacted in 1986.

Seven out of every 10 Cubans were born and have lived in the hardship caused by the criminal economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States more than four decades ago.

When the Soviet Union collapsed more than two decades ago, and Ukraine opted for independence, many expected the country to do better than Russia in the years to come. But events turned out differently.

And prolonged conflict has had a devastating impact on Iraq s economy. Three decades ago, after Iraq initiated hostilities with Iran, its per capita annual GDP plummeted, from 5,374 in 1980 to 1,253 in 1991.

The Swiss scientist Charles Weissmann demonstrated this using mice in a series of experiments two decades ago. Using recently developed zinc finger nuclease technology, any given gene can be removed from an animal s DNA.

Two decades ago, the international community was entering the final phase of efforts to secure peace in Bosnia. But there were also lingering conflicts in Croatia, notably in the Eastern Slavonia region, adjacent to Serbia.

Similarly, Republicans glibly touted the Bush tax cuts the equivalent of which President Bush's father, President George H. W. Bush, two decades ago called voodoo economics as the acme of economic wisdom. They paid no heed to the large drag that Bush's unbalancing of America's public finances will impose on the US economy over the next several decades.

As author Afshin Molavi wrote in his incisive travelogue Persian Pilgrimages , Iranian youth today are not revolutionary idealists, like those of three decades ago. Instead, they have concrete demands, like jobs and political and social freedom.

Ever since China rejoined the global economy three decades ago, its trading partners have been snapping up its manufacturing exports, because low Chinese wages made them super competitive. But, in recent years, relative prices have adjusted.

A similar dynamic is evident in European history, particularly in the revolutions and counter revolutions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Indeed, the legacy of that dynamic was fully overcome in Europe only two decades ago.

The answer, in India, is that no one else could. While various small school lunch programs existed, the idea of a massive government backed scheme originated three decades ago in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.

Twenty years ago, they could graduate from high school without ever using a computer. In only a few decades,amp 160 computer technology and the Internet have transformed the core principles of information, knowledge, and education.

Two years ago, three years ago, about four years ago, markets did well.

The Washington Consensus of free market reforms for developing countries ended more than two decades ago. The INET conference in Berlin showed the need for a new one a consensus that supports sacrifice in the interest of unity.

ROME More than four decades ago, the world s wealthiest countries pledged that at least 0.7 of their GDP would be devoted to official development assistance (ODA). But fewer than a half dozen countries have actually met this goal.

The impetus for the rethinking is, of course, the recent financial crisis. Are Weill and Vickers right now, people are asking, or was Weill right two decades ago, when he backed allowing investment and commercial banks to merge?

To move toward a world free from fear and want that the drafters of the Charter dreamed of six decades ago, we must strengthen and further promote multilateral cooperation and dialogue, with the United Nations as the foundation.

NEW YORK For four decades, Ledra Street in the heart of Nicosia had been a symbol of a divided Cyprus. And then, two years ago this April, the wall that split the capital into north and south was opened.

GENEVA Europe s slow motion sovereign debt crisis may appear unique, but it is not. Just a few decades ago, Europe had the Exchange Rate Mechanism, which collapsed during a crisis very much akin to the one afflicting Europe today.