As protests continue to be organised around England by students angry at the planned almost threefold rises in university tuition fees, the Welsh last week announced that they would not be falling in behind Westminster's proposals.
Sources say the lessons they have drawn from Canada are threefold: first, that "showing up" at community events matters; second, that it is imperative to engage heavily with specialist minority media; and third, to mind your language.
The demands of the Don't Shoot Coalition, which was formed in the aftermath of Brown's death, are local and threefold: end racial profiling in the St Louis metro area, bring in better tools to hold law enforcement officers accountable, and build police departments that reflect the communities they serve.
The government encouraged them to do this, first by making cash bursaries mandatory in 2006, and then with the introduction of the National Scholarship Programme (NSP), which was created in 2012 to allay fears created by the threefold fee cap increase to £9,000 per year.
But in Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and the other five nations whose territories cover 40% of the Amazon basin, the loss of vegetation increased threefold in the same period, wiping out a combined area of forest cover of more than 32,000 sq km.
"The profit used to be threefold," says Naeem, who is trying to get into tourism, while still transporting cargoes of clothing and foodstuffs from time to time.
It aims to see a threefold increase in businesses and revenues in Sunderland before 2020, with a creation of 2,000 new software jobs.
By the same token, the 14-year rule of Vladimir Putin, heir to what remained, has been bolstered by a threefold rise in the oil price.Now the oil price is falling again.
The six founding countries are outnumbered threefold by those who have joined since.
Its purpose was threefold: to cut emissions; to get polluters to pay for the damage they cause; and to get industry to invest in cleaner technology.Under the ETS, countries set national targets for emissions and give 13,000 factories and power plants in Europe's five dirtiest industries allowances to emit a certain quantity of carbon.
