It served the world well for many decades.

It turned out to be absolutely instrumental many decades later in proving Fermat's Last Theorem.

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

The growth of electricity demand will constitute a challenge for many countries in the coming decades.

Belarus had decades of experience in implementing infrastructure projects in many Asian, African and Latin American countries.

His friend, Goro Shimura who worked on the mathematics with him many decades later, reflected on Taniyama's life.

The international community has, for many decades, repeatedly called for a peaceful resolution of the question of Palestine.

The United Nations system has learned many lessons from agency experience in supporting African development over the past two decades.

The Middle East, in particular Palestine, has not enjoyed stability for many decades, in spite of the region's vitality and importance.

Europe s soft power has changed many things in many countries over the past two decades, spurring leaders and citizens to reform their economies and embrace or strengthen democratic values and institutions.

The Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation Programme has over many decades provided a framework for enhancing cooperation between India and African countries.

We have trained three times as many lawyers and investigators in the past 10 years as in the three decades preceding the genocide.

A new global market has been created that ignores the divide which seemed so fundamental for so many decades between East and West.

But in fact this virus crossed over into humans many decades before, from chimpanzees, where the virus originated, into humans who hunt these apes.

And for many decades now there have been a series of TOMS satellites that have collected data about the radiation of the Earth's surface.

Many of these experts were cross examined in court. Along with Taylor s right to die, decades of debate about assistance in dying came under scrutiny.

While the United Nations has achieved much over the past six decades, it has faced many obstacles and challenges, especially at this current historic juncture.

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.

But if you look at that graph that goes down and down and down, that's what we've done to this species through overfishing over many decades.

But many people today philosophers, artists, doctors, scientists are taking a new look at what I call the third act, the last three decades of life.

It has clearly failed for some countries, and it may fail for many. Severe mismanagement by European politicians has caused damage that will last for decades.

Civil wars have made news headlines for many decades now, and ethnic conflicts in particular have been a near constant presence as a major international security threat.

Many plans have been elaborated over the last few decades aimed at resolving the question of Palestine, the most recent of which is the Quartet's road map.

Let's fast forward to the San Francisco Bay Area many decades later, where I started a technology company that brought the world its first 3D laser scanning system.

We must work jointly in good faith to remove any doubts about past unjust decisions that over many decades have affected the lives of millions of innocent people.

For decades, many young and ambitious men and women from fraternal African countries have received their higher education in our Oil Academy, as well as in other educational institutions.

Two Decades from Warsaw

Where it comes from is an organization called the Young Foundation, which, over many decades, has come up with many innovations in education, like the Open University and things like Extended Schools, Schools for Social Entrepreneurs, Summer Universities and the School of Everything.

Making matters worse for Europe s economy was the decision taken decades back to introduce a common currency without a common fiscal policy. Discipline disappeared at the national level in many countries

On adaptation, he pointed out that households have been implementing different technologies for adaptation for decades, and that many decisions on adaptation are taken at the community level through farm associations.

Up to 12 million Roma live in Europe today, primarily in the East. Despite the region s overall economic growth over the past two decades, life for many Roma is worse now than ever.

South South cooperation has been growing over the last two decades, and through that mechanism many avenues have opened for enhanced trade relations and cooperation in the transfer of know how and technology.

This snarled three way dispute, if not carefully untangled, holds many dangers. Turkey, which for nearly two decades has proclaimed its support for Azerbaijan, publicly conditioned rapprochement with Armenia on Armenian concessions to Azerbaijan.

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.

Reforming a 60 year old institution and its many parts is no easy task, and we must therefore bear in mind that such widespread reform will not be possible again for decades to come.

In Sri Lanka, a decades long civil war between the Tamil minority and the Sinhala majority led to a bloody climax in 2009, after perhaps as many as 100,000 people had been killed since 1983.

In 1996, when Japan s public debt GDP ratio reached 80 , many Japanese economists and officials worried about a looming crisis. Almost two decades later, the ratio has surpassed 200 and still no crisis has erupted.

Call this Development Economics 2.0. The results of the Washington Consensus reforms were at best controversial, and some economists have even described the 1980 s and 1990 s as lost decades in many developing countries.

The good news for Americans is that there is enormous inertia in the world trading and financial system. It took many decades and two world wars before the British pound lost its super currency status.

Again, Bandura recognized this years ago, decades ago.

In recent decades, cooperatives have demonstrated great vigour.

Indeed, in many ways, the situation has been getting worse. Over the past two decades, advocates of privatization have promised greater efficiencies and lower energy prices, but the failure to accompany privatization with appropriate regulation and enforcement has left many countries with poorly governed and often deeply corrupt energy sectors.

For several decades, that tendency has been offset by ever more intensive trading of tradable goods, often passing through many countries in complex supply chains. In the future, however, the shift to non tradable consumption may dominate.

Forests also serve as an enormous carbon sink, storing atmospheric carbon dioxide for many decades or centuries thus, protecting forests would help to mitigate climate change. Moreover, forests absorb intense rainfall, thereby reducing the risk of flooding.

For starters, China s impressive growth performance over the last three decades has given the world an economically successful example of what many call state capitalism. Brazil s development policies have also accorded a strong role to the state.