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?

So instead of holding position I figured it'd be best if I got past the wreck, fast.

Kosovo cannot allow its past to rule its present and its future.

201. The financial situation and outlook for the Organization during the past year have remained at best unchanged.

All that's past, Melly. And I intend to make the best of things, even if they are Yankee things.

The United Nations is its best expression.

Secondly, it should place more emphasis on South South cooperation, building on best practice and past successes in that area.

But here is a mushroom that's past its prime.

How can the CTF best achieve its objectives?

I'm sure the firm will do its best.

The discussions aimed at assessing, in view of the past experience, how best the NGO community could cooperate with the Committee.

The CD had its formal organizational arrangement in its normal work in the past.

The past, with all its sorrows, is past but the repercussions of forgotten international obligations are still vivid and present.

UNOPS has not applied international best practice standards (ISO 9001) to its ICT environment instead, through its interaction with other agencies, its assessment is that it has adopted industry best practice.

Its pervasiveness differentiated it from the terrorism experienced in the past.

The people who bought the place are searching into its past.

As a kitchen helper, Intra Eligo has done its best.

So this is absolutely personalized medicine at its best really.

Bill, you will now see British diplomacy at its best.

This is remarkable progress in the country's efforts to acknowledge its past, including its darker aspects.

This glacier has doubled its flow speed in the past 15 years.

In the past 30 years, Panama has considerably improved its literacy rates.

On the contrary, failure to apologize and compensate for its past crime is nothing but an implication that past crimes will be repeated.

Since humanity had survived, it couldn't refuse to its own past the means of its own survival.

Electricity for cities, at its best, is what's called baseload electricity.

Here's the church of San Giusto 16th Century at its best

Over the past year there has been little progress, despite the best efforts of successive CD Presidents, in reconciling the differing approaches to nuclear disarmament.

Japan, which imposed immeasurable misfortune and disaster upon the Korean people in the past, must sincerely reflect upon its past, discontinue its hostile policy towards our Republic and stop provoking Korea apos s division and hindering its reunification.

In the past month, the United Nations has continued its assistance to Lebanon.

Switzerland has contributed its ideas to that project over the past few months.

By now, the United Nations and the international community have had sufficient experience to put together best practices from past situations to deal with future challenges.

The government is not doing its best to solve the housing problem.

Japan could go a long way toward helping its neighbors overcome the poisoned past that it shares with so many of them as a result of its old imperial ambitions. Just as US President Richard Nixon s unyielding anti communism uniquely suited him to establish diplomatic relations with China, Abe, an affirmed nationalist, may be the Japanese politician best able to blend contrition for the past with forthrightness about the present.

During the past five years, BWA has extended its work into six additional countries.

Let the dead past bury its dead. Let's go back home where we belong.

Over the past two seasons, Thompson's use rate has stabilized in the top 20 of the league and this is the best two seasons for his career.

Let us try to go ahead with its implementation as best we can.

Such a balance, I believe, is the Dag Hammarskjöld legacy at its best.

You have the best room in the house. With its own bathroom. Come.

No evidence of its involvement in Iraq's biological warfare programme was found until Iraq declared its past involvement in 1995.

No indication of its involvement in Iraq's biological warfare programme arose until Iraq declared in August 1995 its past involvement.

18. Over its past four sessions, the Committee has considered its procedures for the formulation and format of concluding comments.

Loyalty enhancing mechanisms are not easy to establish. The best ones are positive, like rapid economic growth and rising prosperity, which underpinned the European dream in the past.

Over the past year, stimulated by the Cardoso Panel's report (A 58 817), many parliaments have discussed how best to organize cooperation between parliaments and the United Nations.

I must emphasize once again that the CD has proved its value in the past.