two years ago

For the first time since the crisis erupted two years ago, global leaders went a few millimetres beyond what was expected of them.

But almost two years ago, Cocoa did something that defies comprehension. Was it a miracle or a coincidence? It is certainly a mystery.

I think. . . you know, two years ago, Michelle Obama signed up for the campaign, and had an idea of what she might be getting into.

When we met in London two years ago, we knew that putting the global economy on the path to recovery would be neither easy nor quick.

That is a good question, and one that I definitely did not know when we began our journey two years ago.

This latest book, published two years ago in French as "Au Pays" , is proof that this particular immigrant's star still shines brightly.

Two years ago the first Android phone hit the market and, frankly, it was a bit of a dud.

Zach Howell, president of the College Republican National Committee, could have said the same thing two years ago.

The dam was completed less than two years ago despite concerns raised at the time about building it so close to a seismic fault line.

He couldn't speaking English two years ago, it made him in a disadvantage status when he in the American.

Until two years ago, he financed his mission work out of his paycheck or by begging aid wherever he could find it.

Wolfowitz has had a stormy relationship with the bank's professional staff ever since he became president two years ago.

Germany's Angela Merkel made clear two years ago that, if Russia wanted better relations with the EU, it had to mend fences with Poland.

Two years ago, at the age of 7, Mason Perez hypothesized that he was wasting a lot of water when washing his hands.

President Lugo decided to abandon the church for a political career two years ago, much to the displeasure of the Vatican.

Two years ago, when I came to the Bank, I raised the issue of a potential conflict of interest, and I asked to be recused from the matter.

I know for a fact that she was anorexic two years ago, but she told me she had treatment and is cured.

The president of the company says it's suffered from unfair competition since a new airline entered service two years ago.

Two years ago, a regular survey shows that this company had experienced a great slide down in "dedicated degree of staff" .

Workers are allowed to strike Ford Motor, the only U. S. automaker to avoid bankruptcy and a federal bailout two years ago.

The amount, if realised, would be almost three times that of two years ago.

Two years ago Bob felt bored with his work as a restaurant manager. Luckily he had access to a scholarship in a state university.

Two years ago, Mr. Gates and his wife Melinda decided to use some of their money to create a private foundation in Seattle, Washington.

Dong Zhuo Failure two years ago, Riboud Not to be outdone, shen li born, no one can be the enemy.

He had been an assistant for less than five months when he took over for Nelson two years ago.

You know, it was at the same TED, two years ago, that Richard and I reached an agreement on the future of TED.

The trigger was a crisis two years ago, when overworked developers filed a class-action suit against the company.

Then, two years ago, he saw three of his daughters literally blown to bits by an Israeli tank that had aimed its shells at their bedroom.

Two years ago, we met together at a time of great uncertainty, as we faced the threat of a global influenza pandemic.

It goes to the heart of doctrine of responsible sovereignty that I set out in Beijing two years ago.

Two years ago, he said, a group of local businessmen tried to start a foundation to track missing children.

Two years ago, in the drizzling misery that enveloped Croatia's previous visit to Wembley, who could have dreamed of such a thing?

Ross toured 25 regional Disney Channels around the globe two years ago, trying to convince them of HSM's potential.

And that does indeed seem to be the case for ReCAPTCHA, a system launched by Dr von Ahn and his colleagues two years ago.

Her mother died two years ago, you know . . . she was eighty-five and Aunt Mary Maria was very good to her and misses her very much.

This moving account of the regime's response to a devastating cyclone two years ago is a timely warning against optimism.

Applications from students in India alone are three times that of two years ago, according to Randall Sawyer, director of admissions.

Two years ago, water plants Fengmao, the pleasant scenery of the Central Yunnan basin, has been a strong rise Gudian Kingdom.

Two years ago, the last time the survey was done, only one-quarter of men didn't wash, compared with 10 percent of women.

But the wealthy entrepreneur has no regrets about her decision to emigrate to North America two years ago.

Mr. Obama has been trying to rally Democratic voters who came out in huge numbers two years ago to elect him as president.

Two years ago, remember your birthday, but now the first birthday without my blessing, do not know if you've still okay?

It was the deadliest strike against African Union troops since their arrival in Somalia nearly two years ago to help stabilize the country.

Two years ago, Kathy Dreyfuss of Los Angeles went on a pilgrimage to the Beatles' home town of Liverpool with her mother.

The NATO agreement is one of the most important foreign policy achievements for Mr. Obama since he took office two years ago.

Two years ago that specialist said he'd been tracking me long enough that I'd better start on these eye drops. I officially had glaucoma.

The artist said the Shanghai government asked him to build the studio two years ago, hoping to create a new cultural district.

The importance of this was drawn to my attention two years ago by the case of a TV station.

In an interview two years ago, he said, "Music to me is just like breathing. I have to have it. It's part of me. "

The department head. He's been a real health nut ever since he quit smoking two years ago.

And I have time to remember how much it cost a year ago, two years ago and even six years ago.

Two years ago Brazil also hired a Canadian coach for its men's team, although it did not qualify for this year's Olympics.

I'm not sure exactly why although it might have something to do with my pleasant discovery of cookies in one of those boxes two years ago.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization released a State of World Aquaculture report at a meeting in New Delhi two years ago.

Two years ago, Mars popular fashion trend has not faded out, a new round of network Catchwords also in the promotion of the netizens there!

Two years ago, he even looked as if he had "got" the internet better than others, having bought MySpace for $580m in 2005.

Two years ago the government declared a state of emergency for Pompeii but it lasted only a year.

Two years ago, Kaspersky Lab predicted that YouTube would eventually become a vector for disseminating spam due to its worldwide popularity.

TWO years ago, it took three weeks and a state of emergency to end the riots in France's troubled banlieues.

South African President Jacob Zuma is suing a cartoonist and a newspaper for a controversial drawing of him published two years ago.

When I started this battle two years ago, it was difficult for me to imagine getting rid of any of my Stuff.

He received seven injections of streptomycin when he got pneumonia two years ago. His hearing seems to have gotten worse since then.

The opposition's rehabilitation began with a strong showing in big cities in a regional vote two years ago.

Buffett now owns one of the largest railroads in the world, Burlington Northern, which he took private two years ago.

For a time, it looked as if public anger over the financial crisis of two years ago would be confined to Wall Street banks.

The Ministry of Justice assured archaeologists two years ago that the law was temporary, but has so far failed to revise it.

Two years ago the problem made it to the U. S. Supreme Court, in a case that might have been called U. S. Navy v. Whales.

When Anderson first introduced me to his family, about two years ago, his sister was not _out_, and I could not get her to speak to me.

Two years ago, when I came to the Bank, I raised the issue of a potential conflict of interest and asked to be recused from the matter.

He said he had "accomplished all of the strategic objectives set forth two years ago" when he took the job.

I used to love the sun as much as the next British traveller, but then, two years ago, I was diagnosed with skin cancer.

In the last night SNL show, Tina Fey has thrown a joke on Justin that, two years ago, he was one of the babies in 'Baby Mama'.

Still, our overall credit risk metric, while better than two years ago, places Italy among the riskiest private corporate sectors.

The scion of a prominent Sunni Arab family, he took the job two years ago after his predecessor, his cousin, was assassinated.

More than one thousand American soldiers have been killed in Iraq since the war began almost two years ago.

But China backed out of talks toward that kind of agreement at the U. N. -led climate gathering two years ago in Copenhagen.

But two years ago, when I began to delve more deeply into the field, I had a more personal motivation: I was newly pregnant.

Don't mention George's name to Roger. They had a falling out two years ago. Let sleeping dogs lie, if you know what I mean.

Mormon who has flip- flopped on both abortion and civil unions, and said he was "effectively pro-choice" as recently as two years ago.

"In the old days, meaning two years ago, Pfizer would not have been able to do that. No one would have had the authority, " he says.

Two years ago, officials said, the worst recession since the Great Depression ended.

Two years ago, I said that we needed to reach a level of research and development we haven't seen since the height of the Space Race.

When he went back to his hometown two years ago, he found it had changed greatly.

Over two years ago, the United States and the global economy faced the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

I wait for a pause in Ketut's predictions, then interrupt to remind him that I had been here to see him already, two years ago.

Nothing But Nets was launched two years ago after sports writer Rick Reilly wrote about malaria in Sports Illustrated magazine.

Two years ago, are popular, I gave it a contemptuous disregard, now open, not read a page is crying.

Carole Wright, 54, was unable to put on her own shoes because of her size two years ago.

Two years ago, he said he also said he'd quit after season nine, which is when his contract expires.

He seems to be stuck with a view formed two years ago that the war was unwinnable, and the best option is a fast exit.

"I've learned it a year or two years ago, " Boedihardjo said as reporters asked him questions and cameras flashed around him.

But the bank estimates that total remittances to the region this year will be about $500 million more than they were two years ago.

It was autumn, over two years ago, and writing about it now I see that Mulan and I interacted much like two roommates.

Her father died two years ago , leaving behind her mother, who has no job, and her younger sister, who is still in college .

"Since we opened up in China two years ago, Geox has become the number one European brand in shoes, " he said.

I visited Burma two years ago, many friends took me around the northern ancient capital of the Burma after the meeting in Rangoon .

Now, the City Council, which had rejected the ban two years ago, is saying it might suspend the ban. The reason? Money.

JUST over two years ago Ingushetia, the smallest and once the most peaceful republic in the north Caucasus, was in a state of civil war.

She remembered with shame how one night about two years ago she had come up the escalator at King's Cross with Kath.

Because some people think that the 100 dollar laptop just happened a year ago, or two years ago, or we were struck by lightning.

But two years ago in London, Mr. Obama and his economic team were greeted at the G-20 summit as something akin to rock stars.

About two years ago, my wife, Cathy, got a little dog with a face only a mother could love.

"Two years ago, teenage pregnancy mainly happened to college and senior high school students, " he said.

On social conventions: Two years ago I was in New York and I called the little brother of one of my wife's best friends from Wharton.

Two years ago, after a day of badminton hall to see a handsome boy carrying bags good beautiful beauty, really want to try the game.

It will not look like the air war above Kosovo two years ago, where no ground troops were used and not a single American was lost in combat.

Liverpool were interested in him two years ago but he made the switch to Portsmouth in order to get regular first team football.

But in most industries the underlying logic of the Anglo-Saxon model is no more or less obvious today than it was two years ago.

Two years ago, I was a sixth-grade primary school students, but now I've grown into a second year high school students.

The visualization technology is called Trendalyzer, which Google acquired from a company called Gapminder two years ago.

The launch of the Tesla roadster two years ago demonstrated that electric cars do not have to be slouches.

Since illness forced Fidel to turn over his powers two years ago, several Latin American countries have sought closer relations with Cuba.

It's difficult to say if the risk is any different than it was two weeks ago or two years ago.

I was completely different. from I was two years ago. How I thought people, how I was able to love people was just different.

When sugar beet growers switched to the new varieties two years ago, they did not expect legal problems.

But now gravity has reasserted itself; just as it did two years ago with respect to subprime loans, or Greek debt.

Gordon Hui, managing director of Sunseeker Asia Ltd. , said that until two years ago, it had almost no sales to Chinese customers.

His father died two years ago, his mother is still alive.

The professional's version is called the G-Trainer Pro, made by Alter-G, and was first used by the Washington Wizards two years ago.

Aviva has no interest in ever being a mother, although two years ago she also scoffed at eye makeup and skinny jeans.

When Tony Blair wore jeans to meet George Bush two years ago, the British prime minister was criticized for his pants' snug fit.

The investment opportunity that Hao fell for was all the rage at the peak of the stock market two years ago.

It is hard to believe that just two years ago MBA careers directors were tearing their hair out trying to find jobs for their students.

" Ginger tea" , The cool and warm in the name two years ago in Shanghai Tai Hong Street, quiet, and a design.

In particular, Henley lost one of its largest distance-learning MBA business clients, IBM Europe, to Warwick Business School two years ago.

Two years ago, as Mr Hsuan's father lay dying in Taiwan at the age of 96, the topic of his childhood cropped up.

Two years ago , he decided to take a temporary summer position in Shanghai with China Prep, an educational travel company .

Scott Brown of Massachusetts voted for a regional cap-and-trade program two years ago as a state senator.

A link between pensionable age and life expectancy was due to have been made two years ago in line with a law passed in 1995.

You could've got him a title fight two years ago. Hell, he knew that.

Two years ago, Tata lost out to farmers in West Bengal who refused to make way for a factory to churn out Nano cars.

She was two years ago I taught a course on understanding, in the course of her performance is outstanding, I was impressed.

TWO years ago Howrey was one of the world's 100 biggest law firms by revenue, with nearly 700 lawyers in eight countries.

No, not at all . It's not only paper work . And acting as a support for lab course helps me to review the course I studied two years ago.

WHEN the Federal Reserve put its monetary foot to the floor two years ago, it had plenty of company.

To the best of my knowledge, since we first started pseudo over two years ago there have been no bugs caused by problems with SQLite.

The rapid changes in Sri Lanka since the end of the civil war two years ago are raising concerns that sex trafficking there could increase.

BMW's--such items do not seem less in demand than they did a decade or two years ago.

There has no crack found in the construction since it was finished two years ago.

I have been registered through your web site off two years ago in the American-born panda Su Lin and her mother, Bai Yun.

Two years ago, Oklahoma passed a law barring public funds from being used for abortions with the exception of rape or incest.

Two years ago Wu, 32, was working as an administrative assistant when a friend took her to a salsa studio.

She rose through IBM's business services division before being handed responsibility for all the company's sales two years ago.

All that changed two years ago, when Google moved fully into online applications.

Two years ago, he said police stood by as Red Shirts attacked a Yellow-Shirt rally he had organized.

I'm sure they'll think about what happened two years ago and I've read somewhere that some of them were still having nightmares about it.

The ceremony took place in Lisbon, where the treaty was signed two years ago.

Two years ago, the pain became extreme. One surgeon said that without treatment, he would eventually be unable to walk.

Grape realizes her father-in-law should have come out from his underground chamber two years ago.

Two years ago, Oscar Wilde was finally admitted to Poets'Corner in London's Westminster Abbey.

after such a thumping Republican victory two years ago, Democrats might naturally expect to claw back some lost ground.

Two years ago 49 miners were blown up in an explosives factory at the Chinese-owned Chambishi mine in an accident blamed on lax safety.

The building is said to have been destroyed in a fire two years ago.

It was said that this building was destroyed by a fire two years ago.

At the time the sovereign wealth funds invested in Citi, two years ago, there was little understanding of how bad the crisis would get.

Scott Fink, chairman of Hyundai's national dealer council, said he has more showroom traffic today than two years ago.

Just about two years ago this column was born after I had the idea to mix up a few Vesper Martinis , having just seen Casino Royale.

North Korea tested a nuclear weapon two years ago, causing unanimous support for a strict sanctions resolution at the United Nations.

It was given to him by an employee after he was investigated on suspicion of corruption two years ago.

First objective As four minutes appear on the clock, the game has passed the point Liverpool scored two years ago.

Yes, officially the recession ended two years ago, and the economy did indeed pull out of a terrifying tailspin.

According to the passage, what was the percentage of American adults doing regular physical exercises two years ago? Almost50%.

Two years ago I got an MBA at Beijing University. And I have focused on accumulation of practical experience as much as possible since the .

Yao may never again be the 37-minute workhorse he was two years ago, and the Rockets are prepared to live with this new reality.

Two years ago 1 left the city and went to settle down in the countryside.

The plans mean the company has come a long way since it was on the verge of going bust just two years ago.

Two years ago, his doorbell rang, and two men from Wells Fargo offered to consolidate his consumer loans into a low-cost mortgage.

That would be a remarkable rise for China, which wasn't even in the top ten cinema markets two years ago.

Two years ago, there was a beautiful maiden lingering in the peach blossoms prospering all over the mountain.

They began to work for this journey two years ago and prepared everything fully.

Nerys Jones and Matthew Middleton first met two years ago on a photo shoot, posing as the celebrity couple for a Sunday newspaper.

As a gesture of goodwill, it released the bodies of two long-dead British hostages who had been kidnapped two years ago.

Another Leizhou school was the scene of a bloody knife attack two years ago.

Yet he appears to have neglected his own succession plans until reportedly suffering a stroke two years ago.

Mr. Pickens made waves two years ago, when he proposed that the U. S. should power vehicles with natural gas instead of oil.

A display of the city at Chongqing's Urban Planning Exhibition hall erected only two years ago is already hopelessly out of date.

The football team to which he now belongs was set up only two years ago.

Two years ago, our son's wife asked him for a divorce .

At the front we, suddenly remember two years ago we, as now sitting in the restaurant.

Mumbai, the financial hub of India, was the site of a three-day terror attack two years ago that left more than 160 people dead.

Measured against the lofty expectations of two years ago, Mr Obama's record is at best mixed.

She proved to be a hopeless liability when she was on John McCain's ticket two years ago.

In spite of the troubled environment, market rates for bankers have been running close to the boom-time highs of two years ago.

Two years ago my upline introduced me to Amway products and I found my health improved a lot.

When Chief Davis took over the force two years ago, he said.

Two years ago, Natural England designated ring-necked and monk parakeets as pests, enabling them to be shot without a licence.

Globally, growth is at its weakest since the recovery began almost two years ago.

The junior whom I visited (in a small liberal arts college) is much more relaxed than she was two years ago.

When I first heard of Native XML Database Systems about two years ago, I completely ignored them thinking that it was just hype.

And, as it found two years ago, when CNOOC's bid for Unocal was blocked by the US government, having one's money sniffed at is no fun.

Two years ago a father in Shanghai rushed his 19-year-old daughter to a hospital after she had given birth to a baby at home.

"It allowed me to get my feet wet in politics and test out whether I could get something done, " he told The Times two years ago.

She said she had known him since two years ago.

He married his wife two years ago, last he and his wife divorce.

This was almost two years ago, and one of Benn's sound bites has had me thinking ever since.

Conformity is not an abstract concept to these students. Two years ago, the bystander effect happened not far from here.

Yoshihiko Noda of the Democratic Party of Japan is its third Prime Minister since the party came to power just two years ago.

And there's also that little thing from two years ago that might be tickling the backs of their minds.

Such a project would have been unthinkable only two years ago.

But for two little girls adopted from China two years ago, the fantasy turned out to be true.

Two years ago, I publicly committed to a solution of two states for two peoples: A Palestinian state alongside the Jewish state.

Huang provided excellent historical materials for an exhibition on Chinese laborers held two years ago by the California government.

Two years ago, Catherine decided to challenge the rules she grew up with and contacted a guy on Match. com whose profile caught her eye.

These pointed shoes are out of fashion now, but they were in fashion two years ago.

Two years ago, a guest, Porto defeated two goals, this time to come, Porto hope to grab at least one point.

Wang Tingting last saw her parents nearly two years ago, but now that they are reunited, no one knows what to say to one another.

Two years ago Benedict XVI singled out Marxism as one of the great scourges of the modern age.

While stocks were as high as 3. 5m tonnes two years ago, "we believe it has now been exhausted" , he said.

Rose, who removed the Top Users list from Digg two years ago, today said that they may soon make a reappearance, but in a different form.

It was two years ago when the mobile community was abuzz with rumors that RIM would be supporting both Flash and Silverlight applications.

Two years ago I stood on the TED stage in Arusha, Tanzania. I spoke very briefly about one of my proudest creations.

Kari had first noticed him in a crowd of onlookers when she was on a job for Vogue two years ago.

This is the kind of thing that makes me excited, because two years ago, I probably would have been super upset: Stupid weather!

Rivers: When I took over the parish two years ago, it had no school.

He is also owner of his former Chinese professional basketball team, the Sharks, which he bought two years ago.

More than two years ago, we sat on the pavement of a bridge in Congjiang, Guizhou, with two bottles of beer under a starry sky.

"Two years ago, it was difficult to drive past this place because of the noxious smell and the unpleasant view, " he said.

Two years ago, scientists discovered more than one hundred corals in the Great Barrier Reef and on a reef near northwestern Australia.

Two years ago, I represented the international youth delegation to the U. N. climate negotiations in Bali, Indonesia.

You were in Tibet two years ago. You weren't in Tibet two years ago. Were you in Tibet two years ago?

Chrysanthemum remind me of a piece of paper which I wrote two years ago.

Two years ago, when the project was launched, institutional inadequacy was the overarching challenge of transportation.

TWO years ago, oil-rich Angola was reckoned to have one of the world's fastest-growing economies.

The company has never disclosed the specifics behind why Mr. Jobs needed a liver transplant two years ago.

Flowers bid for the Rock two years ago, prior to its privatisation by former chancellor Alistair Darling.

Mr Jobs was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer in 2004 and underwent a liver transplant two years ago.

Two years ago, when van den Heever's son died unexpectedly, "Bheki came from Pretoria especially to see me, " he says.

Set in the lush Taiwanese countryside, the plant closed over a decade ago, but reopened as a museum-park-gallery about two years ago.

She drove to the Lindell Hotel, where she had stayed two years ago when she came up for Emil's commencement.

And that's the guiding principle of the Race to the Top competition my administration started two years ago.

The last ministerial conference two years ago in Cancun, Mexico, ended without a new trade agreement.

Just two years ago, an informal survey by Virt-X had found none interested in direct access to its trading platform.

The executive was treated for a rare form of pancreatic cancer in 2004 and received a liver transplant two years ago.

The summit meeting is an outgrowth of the Global Tiger Initiative, introduced two years ago by the World Bank president, Robert B. Zoellick.

As well, some people speculated Kim Jong Il, who suffered a stroke-like illness two years ago, was in poor health again.

It's a long way from the cheerful reception that Huntsman received as an arriving U. S. Ambassador less than two years ago.

Two years ago, bankers and policymakers were arguing heatedly over whether New York or London was the world's premier financial centre.

Even with control on offer two years ago, PCCW's telecom network was never going to be an easy sell.

Mr. Soros is, of course, also the man who famously said gold was the 'ultimate asset bubble' nearly two years ago.

Bush said that Premier Wen's visit to the US two years ago is very important and he still has a fresh memory of that visit.

Jenna Suharto moved to China from New York with her husband two years ago, and saw an untapped, cupcake-free market.

I got my guitar two years ago but I've probably spent a total of two weeks practicing.

India had virtually no sales until two years ago, but its nascent market is fast expanding and could eclipse Europe's in the next year.

I've been a worker for twelve years. I've been a soldier since two years ago.

It was love at first sight for marketing executive Lu Yun when he was introduced to his girlfriend two years ago.

Q: You just said that the idea of an anti-terrorism organization was put forward two years ago. However, it is not in place yet.

It was two years ago that Luffy and his crew suffered their greatest defeat at the very literal hands of Bartholomew Kuma.

Mr. Chu stopped producing work after a stroke two years ago rendered him paralyzed and unable to speak.

Those who hope for a swift return to what they thought normal two years ago are deluded.

Chen Kuo-yu, a 40-year-old banana farmer in mountainous Nantou, married one of those women, a young Vietnamese, two years ago.