Four decades of efforts to maintain access to open spaces have been tempered lately by fear.
But the regime has resisted decades of efforts to shut down its nuclear program.
The expanding freight rail network is the culmination of decades of efforts, some unsuccessful, across the city and region.
Dr. Durant says the growth of science festivals is part of decades of efforts by him and others to integrate science and popular culture.
Mr. O'Neill said that decades of efforts to catch money launderers and other tax criminals using offshore accounts had not worked.
The Assembly's approval of the ordinance, a topic of impassioned public debate at its meetings for much of the summer, followed decades of efforts to pass similar measures.
Despite decades of efforts by governments and insurers to restrain costs, patients continue to want the newest — and most expensive — drugs and medical devices.
Despite six decades of efforts to prevent and halt systematic campaigns of massacres, forced displacements and mass rapes, such atrocities persist.
But with the passage of the industrial age and the success of decades of efforts to reclaim the Hudson River, new decisions are necessary.
Incidents in which black men were arrested for no apparent reason remained "almost routine" despite decades of efforts to eradicate racism among police forces in London, she added.
The need for desegregation is in part the paradoxical result of decades of efforts by former Communist governments in Eastern Europe to better integrate Gypsies into society.
