Former British colonies, whose defence had provided much of the rationale for a British military presence in the region, moved towards independence under British governments of both parties.

Former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter has also suggested that the US military is setting up the infrastructure for an enormous military presence in Azerbaijan that will be utilized for a land-based campaign designed to bring down the government in Tehran.

Former ECW announcer Joey Styles soon replaced Coach in a move that became permanent despite Coach's on-air protestations that Styles ' presence was temporary.

Former US First Lady Rosalynn Carter began the fellowships not only to train reporters in how to sensitively and accurately discuss mental health and mental illness, but also to increase the number of stories on these topics in the news media.

Former U. S. President Jimmy Carter has criticized such use of drones, " We don't know how many hundreds of innocent civilians have been killed in these attacks ... This would have been unthinkable in previous times.

Former mayor Fernando da Mata Pimentel was nominated for World Mayor in 2005 on the strength of these and other programs.

Former franchisee Brett Freifeld said these measures do not address the company's biggest problem: Owners have to buy everything from Quiznos – from meat and payroll services to toilet paper – at prices so high that it is hard to make a profit.

Former NFL head coach Mike Ditka said, "... these are some of the best fans in the NFL.

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh categorically denied these charges.

Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd identified himself as an " old-fashioned Christian socialist " in a 2003 interview with The Australian Financial Review, later writing in 2006: " A Christian perspective, informed by a social gospel or Christian socialist tradition, should not be rejected contemptuously by secular politicians as if these views are an unwelcome intrusion into the political sphere.

In 1970, he led the Ghanaian delegation to Moscow in the former Soviet Union, Prague ( Former Czechoslovakia ), and Belgrade ( Yugoslavia ) to discuss Ghana's indebtedness to these countries.

Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, who opted to focus on the Michigan and Washington primaries the following Saturday, polls poorly in all these primaries, with a best result is third with 18 % in New Mexico.

Former presidential executive secretary of the Philippines Eduardo Ermita has responded to these allegations by saying, that the U. S. soldiers "... all look alike so it ’ s as if they never leave ," going on to say that they "... are replaced every now and then.

Former noble titles appearing in male and female variants, transformed by the Weimar Constitution, article 109, into parts of the surnames in Germany, however, established for these surnames a new tradition of gender-specific variants in official registration.

Former Scottish international footballers Billy McNeill, who played for Celtic and Eric Caldow, who played for Rangers, both stood for the SSCUP in these elections.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ) has ruled that these crimes amounted to crimes against humanity in numerous verdicts against Croat political and military leaders and soldiers, most notably Dario Kordić.

Former Minnesota governor and pro-wrestler Jesse Ventura stated on the CNN network The Joy Behar Show, " Both of these parties are like pro-wrestling.

Former Deputy Prime Minister Michael Cullen declared that he supported the monarchy, stating in 2004 he was " a sort of token monarchist in the Cabinet these days.

Collectively these ultimately led to the Dayton Agreement and the deployment of the NATO led IFOR on 20 December 1995 to ensure the adherence of the Former Warring Factions ( FWF ) to the Military Annexes of The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Although brief unifications of the North, such as Later Zhao and Former Qin, occurred, these were relatively short-lived.

Former members of the security services of the Ba ’ ath regime, former military officers, and some other Ba ’ ath Party members are cited as members of insurgent groups ; indeed, these elements formed the primary backbone of the nascent insurgency.

Former industrial employers in the area include many steelworks such as British Steel, Clyde Alloy, Bone Connell & Baxter, though most of these are now defunct due to the decline of the steel industry.

Former Vio-Lence guitarist Phil Demmel is present on " None But My Own " and " The Burning Red ", in place of Ahrue Luster, due to these songs being taken from 2002's Full Force Festival and by that time Luster had left the band.

Former leader, Gordon Wilson has publicly stated that he believes it may be that these two wings find their views so irreconcilable that the party may split as a result.

Former research suggests that pheromones secreted by the queen cause direct suppression of these vital reproductive hormones and functions however current evidence suggests that it is not the secretion of pheromones which act to suppress reproductive function but rather the queen ’ s extremely high levels of circulating testosterone, which cause her to exert intense dominance and aggressiveness on the colony and thus “ scare ” the other mole-rats into submission.

Former members of Red Cell, notably Steve Hartmann and Dennis Chalker, maintain that these exercises were a cover to move SPECWAR operators around the world for covert missions against real-world terrorists.

Former private CBC affiliates CKPG-TV Prince George and CHAT-TV Medicine Hat disaffiliated on August 31, 2008 and joined E !, but the CBC announced it will not add new retransmitters to these areas.

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Former President Fujimori ’ s tainted re-election to a third term in June 2000 strained Peru's relations with the United States and with many Latin American and European countries, but relations improved with the installation of an interim government in November 2000 and the inauguration of Alejandro Toledo in July 2001 after free and fair elections.

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:" The Son of Heaven on hearing all this reasoned thus: Ferghana ( Dayuan ) and the possessions of Bactria ( Daxia ) and Parthia ( Anxi ) are large countries, full of rare things, with a population living in fixed abodes and given to occupations somewhat identical with those of the Chinese people, but with weak armies, and placing great value on the rich produce of China " ( Hanshu, Former Han History ).

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