He was in his mid-fifties at this time, long past the establishment of his name and the wish to be lionized yet once again, and it was almost a decade since he had sworn off lecturing.

During the past decade the program has been carried on through expansion of free higher education in state universities, state colleges, and community colleges.

It is probably more effective than the expanded scholarship programs of the past decade, because the scholarship programs mainly aided the students with the best academic records ( who were usually middle-class ), and these students tended to use the scholarship funds to go to more expensive colleges.

The gains in educational opportunity during the past decade have taken place largely in the publicly supported institutions.

A half-dozen other stations in the New York area also bid for attention of the city's Negro population, up about 50 per cent in the past decade.

Finally, while Armenia is not the only ex-Soviet state that has incurred multimillion-dollar debts to Russia over the past decade, it is the only state to have so far given up such a large share of its economic infrastructure to Russia.

A cappella's growth is not limited to live performance, with hundreds of recorded a cappella albums produced over the past decade.

Over the past decade, Brazil has firmly established itself as a regional power.

Over the past decade, there has been a trend towards increasing the independence of central banks as a way of improving long-term economic performance.

In the past decade, mountain bike racing has also reached international popularity and is even an Olympic sport.

Most class actions over the past decade have been in the field of securities fraud and financial services.

Over the past decade, the United States has been a principal provider of humanitarian assistance for famine relief, and has sponsored health care, education, good governance, and security assistance programs.

The sport has grown at a rate of 12-15 percent annually for more than the past decade, with nearly 3000 courses in the US and more than 3000 globally.

The Tigers have garnered a number of championships in the past decade, winning over 63 AUS championships and 2 CIS championships.

In a December 5, 2007 article on Mutato Muzika, LA Weekly reported that " After touring sporadically over the past decade but not releasing any new material, Devo are spending December at Mutato trying to create an album ’ s worth of new material and contemplating a method of dispersal in the post-record-company world.

Universal Primary Education is one of the eight Millennium Development Goals and great improvements have been achieved in the past decade, yet a great deal remains to be done.

The Agriculture Minister Mohammad Asif Rahimi stated that over the past decade arable land had increased from 2. 1 million hectares to 8. 1 million hectares, wheat production from 5. 1 million tonnes to 2. 3 million tonnes, nurseries from 75, 000 hectares to 119, 000 hectares and grape production from 364, 000 tonnes to 615, 000 tonnes.

Graffiti databases have increased in the past decade because they allow vandalism incidents to be fully documented against an offender and help the police and prosecution charge and prosecute offenders for multiple counts of vandalism.

These upgrades have played a key role in supporting Greece's economy, which in the past decade has come to rely heavily on the construction industry.

The gun crime rate rose between 1997 and 2004 but has since slightly receded, while the number of murders from gun crime has largely remained static over the past decade.

In the past decade, Hobart International Airport received a huge upgrade, with the airport now being a first class airport facility.

In prehistoric times, most individuals were not as likely to live past 30, with few reaching their fourth decade, and thus it wasn't likely that this trait was subject to selection.

The former term includes what is called " Religious Zionism " or the " National Religious " community, as well as what has become known over the past decade or so as haredi-leumi ( nationalist haredi ), or " Hardal ", which combines a largely haredi lifestyle with nationalist ideology.

He reunited with Hitchcock at the end of the decade in Under Capricorn ( 1949 ) as an Australian land-owner with a shady past.

Military exchange between the two countries has been increasing in the past decade.

That mistake, she thought, had cost her dearly these past few days, and she wanted to avoid falling into any more of the traps that the mountain might set for her.

Forgiveness implies more than a person wanting his past sins covered by God's love.

Traditional crewel embroidery which seems to be appearing more frequently this fall than in the past few years is still available in this country.

Southern California gasped and blinked under an autumn hot spell, drier, more enervating, more laden with man's contrived impurities than the worst days of the summer past.

From there I turned left along Cumhuriyet Cadesi past more hotels and a park on the left, Republic Gardens, and came in a few moments to Taksim Square, one of the hubs of the city, with the Monument of the Republic, erected in 1928, in its center.

As Yinger has pointed out, the `` reliance on symbols, on tradition, on sacred writings, on the cultivation of emotional feelings of identity and harmony with sacred values, turns one to the past far more than to the future ''.

The relinquishing by philosophy of pretentious claims to empirical priority gives it an ability to treat problems of meaning and truth which in the past it was unable to examine because of its missionary attitude to knowledge of more humble sorts.

Many potters clung to the past the more determinedly as they were confronted with radically new ideas ; ;

The last three volumes are again more dependent on the past, as Hardy's creative powers declined in his old age.

In fact all of our civilized world is the resultant of man's projection of his imagination over the past 60 centuries or more.

One effect of the proposal, which puts a premium on population instead of economic strength, as in the past, would be to take jobs from European nations and give more to such countries as India.

For while the past needs of the Church in this country may have been adequately met by collegiate institutions, which in temper and tone closely resembled junior colleges and finishing schools, it would seem that today's need is for the college which more closely resembles the university in its `` pursuit of excellence ''.

Although the theological forms of the past continue to exist in a way they do not in a more secularized situation, the striking thing is the rapidity with which they are being reduced to a marginal existence.

It is a proposal that justice now be served by means other than those that have ever preconditioned the search for it, or preconditioned more positive means for attaining it, in the past.

Since the 1950s, this type of fiction has to a large extent merged with science fictional tropes involving cross-time travel between alternate histories or psychic awareness of the existence of " our " universe by the people in another ; or ordinary voyaging uptime ( into the past ) or downtime ( into the future ) that results in history splitting into two or more time-lines.

Irregular past tense forms, such as " broke " or " was / were ", can be seen as still more specific cases ( since they are confined to certain lexical items, like the verb " break "), which therefore take priority over the general cases listed above.

) Finally, the past tense and past participle of dwell and kneel are more commonly dwelt and knelt in both standards, with dwelled and kneeled as common variants in the US but not in the UK.

* Lit as the past tense of light is more common than lighted in the UK ; American English uses lit to mean " set afire " / " kindled " / " made to emit light " but lighted to mean " cast light upon " ( e. g., " The stagehand lighted the set and then lit a cigarette .").

Conversely, British English favours fitted as the past tense of fit generally, whereas the preference of American English is more complex: AmEng prefers fitted for the metaphorical sense of having made an object " fit " ( i. e., suited ) for a purpose ; in spatial transitive contexts, AmEng uses fitted for the sense of having made an object conform to an unchanged object that it surrounds ( e. g., " fitted X around Y ") but fit for the sense of having made an object conform to an unchanged object that surrounds it ( e. g., " fit X into Y "); and for the spatial senses ( both intransitive and transitive ) of having been matching with respect to contour, with no alteration of either object implied, AmEng prefers fit (" The clothes fit.

Although over the past years more emphasis has been given to the construction of grassroots alternatives to ( capitalist ) globalization, the movement's largest and most visible mode of organizing remains mass decentralized campaigns of direct action and civil disobedience.

In the past, Autodesk has estimated the total number of existing. dwg files as more than three billion.