We felt they were from the age of yesteryear.

Our happiness has lasted a year already, and the suns of yesteryear...

Indeed, we carry a lot of luggage from our yesteryear in the human brain.

Norma Desmond, famous star of yesteryear... is in a state of complete mental shock.

In order to prevent the recurrence of conflict and to rebuild lasting peace, we must work systematically to transcend the distorted relationships of yesteryear.

But the memoirs of these rebellious vanguards of yesteryear highlight only their youthful passion and pure idealism, or their sufferings and those of their parents. They do not mention their own barbaric assaults, vandalism, and looting, or their kangaroo courts.

A better approach would be to ensure that digital information, like its offline variants of yesteryear, can disappear over time. First, we could give digital files expiration dates, so that our digital systems would delete the file when the appropriate time comes.

But all this effort may vanish like the snows of yesteryear, because reform cannot be realized or become firmly rooted unless it stands solidly on two feet active political will, and payment of the financial contributions that are essential to the implementation of resolutions designed to serve the collective Arab interest.

It is the result of an international climate where the ghosts of yesteryear, of the notion of guaranteeing peace through the fear of confrontation, have once again come to haunt us, as reflected in the breakdown of the 2005 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and the lethargy of the Disarmament Commission.

51. The question is often raised of how to deal with the sect problem at a time when beliefs seem to be more and more exposed to deregulation and when the certainties of yesteryear seem to be giving way to a multiplicity of creeds with a shifting pattern of membership, in which relativism is often held up as an absolute value.