As Portugal, the colonial power, withdrew in a hurry in the mid-1970s, it became clear that the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), a revolutionary Marxist group, was going to win power.
Morocco has occupied its southern neighbour Western Sahara since 1975, when Spain, the colonial power, withdrew, and the north African country fought a 15-year war with the Polisario Front, the independence movement.
In most countries in the sample, such marketing boards were shut down or their monopoly import powers withdrawn as a result of structural adjustment programmes pursued since the mid-1980s.
Once the powers withdrew, Afghanistan became a stateless society without a civic culture or a viable economy.
Indeed the obituary of correspondent Patrick O'Donovan recalls that he "travelled about and described what was going on as if he was an explorer, in the process making large numbers of readers aware of the convulsions that were taking place or would continue to take place as the imperial powers withdrew or were forced out".
Palestine and the Indian Subcontinent are merely two among many regions devastated by predictable violence after colonial powers withdrew.
Generating solar power withdraws 200 times less water than a coal power plant to produce the same amount of electricity.
During power generation, solar power withdraws 200 times less water than a coal power plant to produce the same amount of electricity.
He was certain that in the "march towards the self-governing ideal, the political unity of India … would disappear altogether if the protecting power were withdrawn; and no language should be used that might … encourage such a belief".
The local cabal, cringingly faithful to the creaky apparatus of power, has withdrawn inside the make-believe world of the inner circle even as the old hierarchy collapses around it.
Ron Davis, the general manager of Burbank Water and Power, has withdrawn from the selection process to take the helm of Austin Energy, the nation's ninth-largest public electric utility.
