So these events in our recent past really are unique.

Those are considerable achievements, given the realities of the recent past.

The recent marked increase in diplomatic activity continued over the past month.

Promotional work should continue and intensify, building on successful experiences in the recent past.

In the recent past, the prices of these products have increased faster than steel prices.

However, the recent past has been a showcase for grave shortcomings in the treaty system.

Croatia has now taken a major step forward towards addressing the injustices of its recent past.

In the recent past, there were some 26 different federal agencies running their own payroll systems.

These factors have led to an increase in trafficking in human organs and tissue in the recent past.

Before instituting such invasive regulation, we should examine whether past compensation structures really were the catalysts for our recent problems.

Moreover the influence of the country's Scandinavian neighbours was now much stronger than it had been in the recent past.

Those who called Puerto Rico a colony shut their eyes to the present, the future and even the recent past.

In recent past, the preference of men to women remains in the mindset and even action of not a few people.

Global events in the recent past have reinforced, rather than diminished, our support for the principles enshrined in the Rome Statute.

We are concerned at the recent upsurge of violence, which has threatened to upset the delicate truce of the past few months.

There is also an attempt to highlight recent cases those decided in the past two or three years as opposed to older ones.

I have had the opportunity in the recent past to place on record Canada's strong support for the enlargement of the Security Council.

It is only in the recent past that the threat of the illicit spread of conventional arms has been taken up more seriously.

While it was true that crimes related to sexual violence had increased in the past eight years, recent studies showed that, as compared to the past, women currently felt more protected and able to report sexual violence.

Encouraged by reductions in poverty in some countries in the recent past, and determined to reinforce and extend this trend to benefit people worldwide,

(b) A number of developing countries have experienced rapid economic growth in the recent past and have become dynamic partners in the international economy

Encouraged by reductions in poverty in some countries in the recent past, and determined to reinforce and extend this trend to benefit people worldwide,

Encouraged by reductions in poverty in some countries in the recent past and determined to reinforce and extend this trend to benefit people worldwide,

The Eastern African coast, for instance, has in the recent past experienced a series of armed attacks, particularly in the waters adjacent to Somalia.

In order to achieve that two fold purpose, it would seem advisable to draw lessons from the consultations and debates of the recent past.

The events of the recent past have not only reinforced that notion, but have also led to its being placed high on the international agenda.

However, since the recent arrival of more troops, there has been some respite in the past 10 days from the prevailing and widespread cycle of violence.

In its recent past, the diminutive Scotney Castle has featured in a Squeeze music video and been a bolthole for Margaret Thatcher during the 1970s and 1980s.

And now we know that in our recent past it melted back and formed again, and sea level went up and down, six meters at a time.

The developed world still accounts for nine tenths of world outward FDI flows, but FDI from developing countries has shown higher growth rates in the recent past.

Another area of United Kingdom study has examined potential new techniques to differentiate between emissions from recent nuclear weapons complex operations and legacy material from past operations.

Considering the serious and much discussed backlog of cases in the past, the recent level of achievement in processing the cases at hand is worthy of admiration.

When Bulgaria joined the European Union this past January, I believed that my country had finally left its repressive past behind. But the recent arrest and threatened deportation of Annadurdy Hadjiev, a dissident from Turkmenistan who sought refuge here, suggests that some things never change.

In recent years, it had contributed some 200,000 annually for the Centre's activities and the assistance provided to the Department over the past five years totalled over 2 million.

Mr. Badawi (Malaysia) Recent studies by the United Nations have shown that the gaps between the rich and the poor of the world have worsened over the past decade.

Realizing that, in spite of the positive gains of the recent past, the situation in Liberia remains fragile and still constitutes a threat to international peace and security in the subregion,

Foremost among these is that economic development is largely in the hands of poor nations themselves. Countries that have done well in the recent past have done so through their own efforts.

The recent era of global finance perhaps we should speak of it as being past? differed from the financial surge of a century ago. Its cultural manifestations also appeared to be novel.

The past 12 months reaffirmed the trend observed in recent years towards a continuous increase in the volume and scope of the activities of the Security Council. (A 60 2, p. 1)

Zero inflation for the past three months has been a one time event driven by the fall in energy prices. The other broad components of the consumer price index have increased in recent months, and the consumer price index is up about two percentage points over the past 12 months.

As in recent years, a contingency provision has been made in the proposed budget to cover the cost of such services in the event the General Assembly does not maintain its past practice.

The recent era of global finance maybe we can already possibly speak of it as being past differed from the financial surge of a century ago. Its cultural manifestations also appeared to be novel.

You can focus on past positive, or past negative.

It is time for our leaders to recognize new systemic risks and work together to mitigate them. Otherwise, the recent past will be prologue, with those risks likely to get the better of the global economy.

Both statements speak not only about the world in the recent past, but most of all about ourselves, because, as has often been said, with good reason, the United Nations is as good as its Member States.