While organized heresy had almost disappeared, reforms intended to strengthen the parish priesthood languished.
The Conservatives, who had almost disappeared, now support Mr Uribe, a former Liberal, and did well.
The strong trade unions and chapels that had sustained better values had almost disappeared.
After World War II, "the G & B had almost disappeared," said William P. Johns, its president.
Outside the Byzantine Empire, however, the urban basis for the existence of policing organizations had almost disappeared.
Over the seventy years of Soviet power, what you consider to be typically Russian had almost disappeared.
By the 1980s the distinctions between the developed and underdeveloped nations of the U.S.S.R., as far as access to education was concerned, had almost disappeared.
"The 30-minute treatment had almost disappeared from spa menus because it was really not very efficient for a spa to sell 30-minute treatments," she said.
There were no creases on the left side of my forehead, and the laugh fold to the left of my nose had almost disappeared.
By the 1980s in the Iraq of Saddam Hussein, foreign businesses, schools and organizations had almost disappeared from the local scenery, apart from a small diplomatic corps.
"I checked around," he said, winking his pinpoint aquamarine eyes, which, as he aged, had almost disappeared under colorless eyebrows and hanging folds of flesh.
