Because the past is knowable, the best way of understanding a current crisis is to search for a model in past experiences, even those that are long past. But which is the right template?

1983. Bob Dylan is 42 years old, and his time in the cultural spotlight is long since past.

As we move out, the light from these distant galaxies have taken so long, we're essentially backing up into the past.

But my pick for the top Long News story of this past year was this one water found on the moon.

It tells us about their past, but detection of a signal tells us it's possible for us to have a long future.

The biologists continued to be skeptical of the long range communication issue well past the '70s, until the end of the Cold War.

We must implement the lessons of the past and equip ourselves to create the conditions for long term peace in societies emerging from conflict.

In contrast to the past, no Israeli border is now secure, especially the long frontier with Egypt. No implicit alliance can be taken for granted.

And they will never long for it, because of the evil deeds they have done in the past and Allah knows the unjust, very well.

And they will never long for it, because of the evil deeds they have done in the past and Allah knows the unjust, very well.

I prefer the word roughness to the word irregularity because irregularity to someone who had Latin in my long past youth means the contrary of regularity.

For now, Thailand is trapped between authoritarianism and democracy, between the past and the future and will likely remain there, until the long royal twilight has passed.

TOKYO A week, it is said, is a long time in politics. But events in Asia over the past week may define the region for decades to come.

In Kosovo, the trauma created by the repression of the past and the inter ethnic violence that plagued the region for so long has yet to be healed.

Over the past several years, both the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council have come to recognize the importance of comprehensive and long term strategies for peacebuilding.

The time is long past when corrupt leaders plundered public funds and Government coffers and thousands of young people were unable to educate themselves and fell victim to rampant unemployment.

You can focus on past positive, or past negative.

Those who believe and do good deeds will not be blamed for what they may have consumed in the past , so long as they fear God and believe in Him and do good works so long as they fear God and believe in Him, so long as they fear God and do good deeds. For God loves those who do good.

Those who believe and do good deeds will not be blamed for what they may have consumed in the past , so long as they fear God and believe in Him and do good works so long as they fear God and believe in Him, so long as they fear God and do good deeds. For God loves those who do good.

Long held devotion to logging and to mines and to agriculture, and to no government regulation values that worked well in the past, but they don't seem to be working well today.

Although the Brazilian industrial sector was large, complex and diversified, Brazil, like any other country, could not rely solely on past achievements if it wished to ensure robust, long term industrial development.

But, whereas Europeans, with crime rates well below American rates for the past half century, could long afford to be relatively soft on most crimes, they have seen their crime rates increase sharply during the past twenty years. By contrast, American rates have fallen, in part because of greater use of punishment.

Indeed, the long dreaded impact of climate change is already upon us. The current drought covering much of East Africa far more severe than past droughts has been directly associated with climate change.

You may not care a whit about chess, long regarded as the ultimate intellectual sport. But the stunning developments coming out of the chess world during the past decade should still command your attention.

While the Fed tries to look past transitory fluctuations in commodity prices, it will be hard to ignore rising consumer inflation as the huge drop of the past year particularly in energy prices stabilizes or even reverses. Indeed, any standard decision rule used by central banks by now dictates that a hike is long overdue.

Past legacy

But those who think that China s mutant political authoritarianism and mighty economy can long prevail are guilty as well. Such a system is as unsuited to the future as Mao s system was to the past.

From our experience around the world, we have learned that addressing both past and present abuses, based on the rule of law and international norms, can go a long way in promoting national reconciliation efforts.

Faulkner once said, The past is not dead, it's not even the past.

This will require much work on the part of both immigrants and native Dutch. As long as moderates keep their heads, a new Netherlands may be born out of the terrible events of the past weeks.

For the past 25 years, the party system in New Caledonia has been dominated by the anti independence RPCR, which was founded and led until 2005 by long time President of the South Province Jacques Lafleur.

In deliberately ignoring this diversity and embracing nostalgia for a long gone past, the Republican Party led astray by its ultra conservative lunatics was far more responsible than its decent candidate for the defeat. Romney s mistake was to align himself for too long with ideas that were too radical for him and for America.

First, in the past, short term macroeconomic stability was often achieved at the expense of structural adjustment and rational allocation of resources. To achieve sustained growth, a balance between short term and long term objectives must be struck.

Danger past, God forgotten.

In the past hour

In the past day

In the past week

Cities, past and future.

A policeman ran past.

He is past forty.

It's twenty past six.

Past and Present Strategies

Several friends of mine in the Conservative party s parliamentary group have long been engaged in supporting a free Taiwan. Over the past ten years, we have held Scandinavian conferences on Taiwan in the parliaments in Copenhagen, Oslo, and Stockholm.

In the past, such a combination of countries was almost unthinkable, and these exercises cannot be explained away as simple one off affairs with little resonance. Instead, they reflect China s long term strategic goal of establishing hegemony across Asia.

Life is a long, long road.