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Mitchell said the goal continues to be a resolution of the decades-long conflict within a year.

"For that project, the preliminary discussion and studies phase was decades long, " he said.

Mr Carter said the decades-long US trade embargo and travel ban damaged the Cuban people and hindered rather than helped reform.

As for the name "Alpha, " Wolfram sees this as the start of a decades-long project to build a system that can compute all human knowledge.

The find is part of a decades-long effort to piece together fragments of an ancient supercontinent that existed before Pangaea.

This crisis marks the reversal of a decades-long transition from a bank-dominated to a market-dominated financial system.

Wang said he wept many times while writing the lyrics, which to some extent were mainly based on his own decades-long singing dream.

Learning from India's decades-long experience combating Islamist violence in the region will strengthen U. S. efforts to do so as well.

The democratic wave sweeping across the Arab world won't tolerate US complicity in Israel's decades-long oppression of the Palestinians.

Less agreeable are the explosion of public debt and the acceleration of a decades-long trend: financial concentration.

Somalia is in the midst of a decades-long civil war, and though soda gets in via boat, the bottling plant is closed.

Would Iran and Israel settle into a decades-long regional cold war, like that between India and Pakistan?

But British foreign policy also shows signs of breaking free of the decades-long spell cast by the "special relationship" with America.

Since then, its members have been embroiled in a decades-long argument over whether to dust off their longboats.

for virtually all commercial airliners today , the answer is " turbofan engines , " the latest in a decades - long evolution.

The change of heart is an ominous portent for the decades-long process of increasing European economic integration.

And I don't mean Bernard Madoff for his decades-long Ponzi scheme.

The change leads to a decades-long argument in the academic circles. But there is no conclusion now.

But the "succession" explanation does not account for North Korea's decades-long quest to acquire nuclear weapons in the first place.

In return, the environmentalists will end a decades-long international campaign against buying Canadian lumber.

The vote is the central part of a peace agreement that was signed in 2005 to end the decades-long north-south Sudanese conflict.

Meryl Streep has won three Oscars in her decades long career.

Dr. Bialystok began her decades-long research by studying how children learn a second language.

But many financial-services companies continued their decades-long migration to Midtown after the attacks.

Syrian Kurds complain of decades-long discrimination against their community.

Even if you've saved more, is it enough to sustain you through a decades-long retirement?

What the politicians don't want to talk about, of course, is their decades-long dealings with the Murdoch empire.

According to a recent decades long study, behaviors both good and bad are actually contagious.

Though no economist is forecasting the end to China's decades-long bull run, many have turned more cautious.

The depressing thing about the rise of Hamas and the decline of the Fatah wing of the PLO is that it reverses this decades-long trend.

After two world wars and the decades-long Cold War, what has the world learned about managing conflict?

Mr Murdoch's decades-long grip on British politics has been broken.

According to the Census, Southern and Western states saw the most growth, continuing a decades-long trend.

The struggle to defeat Tocks island Dam was decades long.

Instead of getting into a fight, he points out, Norway and Russia last year ended a decades-long dispute.

Taylor reveals intriguing details, such as Chiang's decades-long secret communications, after his 1949 defeat, with Mao's No. 2, Zhou Enlai.

Its economy, however, for all its three-decades-long boom, still only accounts for 8% of global GDP in current dollars;

The first is that a decades-long global conspiracy is afoot;