Japan has made its own mistakes in its recent history.

We are going through the darkest moment in our recent history.

Our recent history has provided us several bad examples in that regard.

If you look at history, in recent history, you'll see the cycles of belief in American decline come and go every 10 or 15 years or so.

Implications of recent economic and social developments

The African continent continued to experience some of the most extensive and destructive mercenarism in recent history.

The fictional Romanian creators were not wrong We even do it with our own recent history, and theirs.

Diplomatic relations were established in 1969 and recent waves of immigration show that Afghans are finding refuge in Australia from the violence that has wracked their recent history.

Now, a bit of economic history, I think, may be helpful here.

The concept of the right to protect was therefore redundant and, as recent history had shown, could be dangerous.

Recent economic trends and developments in the ESCWA region

Investors worry about the longer term consequences of political dysfunction, another year of European economic contraction, disastrously high unemployment, unprecedented and thus untested central bank policies, and increasing global tensions. And the recent bungling of the Cyprus rescue does not help. No wonder some have called the recent market rally one of the most unloved in history.

A number of commentators have observed that the global financial crisis was good for economic history, because it directed attention to previous crises and to the insights that could be gleaned from studying them. In fact, economic history never stopped playing its role in economic research.

Tony Blair has a powerful claim to being one of the most successful British politicians of any recent generation, at least in domestic economic and social policy. But history will remember him mainly for his strategic error in going to war in Iraq.

But let me stress that this report is one of the most important documents in the recent history of the United Nations.

The first session of the newly elected parliament is scheduled to convene next month, marking a new chapter in Afghanistan's recent history.

CAMBRIDGE Robert Gordon of Northwestern University is a distinguished economist whose work in macroeconomics and studies of long term economic growth have properly earned him high regard. So his recent exercise in speculative future history, which asks whether economic growth in the United States has come to an end, has attracted much favorable attention.

Haiti s recent economic history is marked by a remarkable and tragic downslide since the mid 1980 s, exacerbated by sometimes well intentioned but typically disastrously executed US diplomacy. In an attempt to push Haiti toward democracy, the US imposed economic sanctions, which crippled Haiti s fragile and newly emerging export sector, especially apparel and other labor intensive production.

Recent history has given us graphic evidence of what would happen if we do. But any solution in Afghanistan depends on eliminating its opium.

There is no certain answer to that question, but perhaps economic history can offer some clues. A recent analysis by Andy Haldane of the Bank of England of long term returns on UK financial sector equities suggests that the last 25 years have been very unusual.

By reinforcing negative stereotypes of rival countries, such squabbles over history and remembrance sow fragmentation and instability, and have certainly fueled the region s recent territorial disputes. Indeed, the politicization of history remains the principal obstacle to reconciliation in East Asia.

Brazil concluded that the dispersal of environmental legislation in several laws was mainly the result of different political and institutional contexts in its recent history.

A recent mission of the International Monetary Fund described maturing economic institutions and policies.

Even though our relations with them have improved dramatically, our recent history makes us feel uncomfortable, that we are between a rock and a hard place.

The most recent compilation of historical references regarding the legislative history of the draft instrument can be found in document A CN.9 WG.III WP.43.

Recent history has shown us that States weakened by conflict should not, and cannot, be considered a localized problem or one distant from our respective borders.

Seen in broad historical perspective, this is not such an unusual situation. In their recent bestselling economic history, Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson cite many past and current cases in which powerful individuals attain control over the state and use this power to enrich themselves.

Indeed and recent history has witnessed this repeatedly conflicts that have been resolved sometimes break out once again, due to a lack of attention on the part of the international community to post conflict situations, which are often characterized by fragile State institutions and a precarious economic situation.

14.3 African countries have made significant progress in economic and social development in recent years.

Furthermore, the tsunami coincided with an important milestone in the history of Somalia, namely, the recent formation of an all inclusive Government of National Unity for Somalia.

The experiences of the 1990s and from economic history more generally show that trade liberalization and global economic integration are greatly facilitated by expansion of economic activity and employment and by improvements in living standards.

The recent rise in oil prices also posed a challenge to world economic growth and, in particular, the economic development of many developing countries.

Asia s long history of rivalry and competition among its various powers has also been an important factor in its recent economic success. The dynamic of competition and emulation among China, Japan, and South Korea has not existed in peacefully reconciled post WWII Europe there is nothing like it in Africa, either.

The recent Indian Ocean tsunami brought great devastation in human and economic terms to the region.

And as you can see, for most of recent history, except for a brief period, we have consistently spent more than we take in. Thus the national debt.

Counter cyclicality is a useful mindset for individuals and governments. Recent history, particularly the excessive accumulation of private and public debt, suggests that we have not acquired it.

Serbia and Montenegro has no interest in hiding anything of the recent tragic history surrounding the bloody break up of the former Yugoslavia and the ensuing civil wars.

Mr. Løvald (Norway) We have been witnesses to the worst earthquake and tsunami disaster in recent history, a disaster that will be with us for years to come.

BERKELEY We economists who are steeped in economic and financial history and aware of the history of economic thought concerning financial crises and their effects have reason to be proud of our analyses over the past five years. We understood where we were heading, because we knew where we had been.

Such disparities do not arise from different historical experiences, because Koreans have shared a history for thousands of years as one nation. The gap, instead, reflects recent historical choices.

While recent developments were quite positive, the situation was still very fragile and serious economic problems remained.

Recent major efforts include the social and economic renewal plan known as Vamos Guatemala (Let's go Guatemala!

The case of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific is one recent example.

As Haldane puts it, banking became the goose laying the golden eggs. Indeed, there is no period in recent UK financial history that bears any comparison to those jamboree decades.

The History at the End of History