Sentence examples for case decades from inspiring English sources

Nobody asks; Libyans have become inured to war, and, in any case, decades of secret-police surveillance have conditioned them not to inquire into the causes of violence.

A millionaire's tax would also mean that the tax code would again begin to distinguish between the merely affluent and the truly wealthy, as was the case decades ago.

Today, north-eastern Africa faces similar challenges.As with the Egyptian case decades ago, the Merowe dam in Sudan and the dams in Ethiopia are likely to underperform in power generation.

And like all marketers, Nike is coming to terms with the biggest shift in the landscape: the fragmentation of audiences, and media, makes it difficult to get the proverbial "everyone" discussing the same ads at the same time as was the case decades ago.

Kepler launched in 2009 after, as is so often the case, decades of preparation, studies, and delays.

We would be experiencing Japanese-style bad deflation, of the sort that can undermine prosperity for years and even (in Japan's case) decades.

As required by the hypothesis, we limited our analyses to rural counties (<100 persons mi−2) based on the population density at the start of the interval under study, such as the 1980 population density for the base case decade, 1980 1989.

They have had years to prepare, in some cases decades.

"The families of Sri Lanka's dead and disappeared have waited years and in some cases decades for justice.

To some, they reflect the elusiveness of resolution in cases decades old; to others, they represent another missed opportunity for a full accounting of what happened, and why.

Thousands of inmates said to have gang ties have been sent to units like that at Pelican Bay, where they remain for years, or in some cases decades.