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Julia lifted her forearms out of instinct, shut her eyes, and waited for the swift delivery of his decades'-old promise.

The draconian, decades-old state of emergency must be lifted and with it curbs on freedom of speech and assembly.

Shanghai's nightlife is in the unenviable position of having to live up to its own decades-old reputation.

It also preserves the decades-old convention that the U. S names the No. 2 official at the fund and Europe taps one of its own as IMF chief.

It does not allow someone to exhume memories that are decades old or to retrace or undo human development.

The landmark discovery seems to reverses decades-old assumption that thinking about food causes you to eat more.

Although most of them were built in the run-up to the Olympics, the poor quality of construction makes them look decrepit and decades old.

With her keen sense of smell, Vera is trained to find mines by detecting very small quantities of the decades-old vapor the mines emit.

Some of these specimens are decades old, but all have been expertly handled and preserved by the museum's staff.

And Obama has already established the YouTube video address, in addition to the decades-old White House tradition of a weekly radio address.

And trial begins in the decades old murder of an Italian financier whose close Vatican ties earned him a nickname of "God's banker" .

Katrina's torrential rains and a massive storm surge proved too much for the decades-old levee system in New Orleans.

Some of the mechanisms behind the four-decades-old trend, which appears to have intensified in the late 1990s, are not understood.

Tardy pledges to lift decades-old emergency laws and allow independent political parties have so far gone unfulfilled.

The WGS satellites eventually will replace the Air Force's decades-old constellation of Defense Satellite Communications System spacecraft.

So, why blame soda for an epidemic that's only a few decades old?

More prosaically, some of the electricity for your latest gadget was probably made in a power plant that's decades old.

This assumption is in sharp contrast to the decades-old traditional methods of developing mainframe applications.

Underground pipe networks are often several decades old and leak, say environment experts and government officials.

Chinese weapons tech is, so far, decent copies of decades old designs.

wish as much news was coming out of Yemen as there is Egypt. Which decades-old dictatorship will fall first?

But Obama opposes Republican proposals that would fundamentally change decades-old health programs for the elderly and poor.

He lifted the decades-old emergency law, abolished the state security court and brought in a law allowing peaceful protests.

Other nations, headed by China and India, have been slower to liberalise their external accounts and can rely on decades-old barriers.

But more than anything the briefings reveal how the ISI's world view is framed by its decades-old enmity with India.

Anchor: Chinese lawmakers are now said to be debating whether to drop the decades old one-child policy.

Some Democrats saw Mr Toomey's proposal as a promising departure from Republicans' decades-old opposition to tax increases in any form.

Or perhaps the problem lies not in equality, but in the ambivalence that inevitably surround a titanic cultural shift only decades old.

Many new discoveries have, in fact, shaken up the field, calling into question decades-old assumptions.

The decades-old U. S. economic embargo of the communist-run island has long-irritated other nations in the Americas, including many close U.

These studies-some decades old-were done in closely monitored, clinical settings; many patients haven't had a drink in the many years since.

U. S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte was asked if the end of Fidel Castro's rule would prompt an end to the decades-old U.

Adding to the tensions are the country's decades-old labor codes, which workers and companies alike say require an overhaul.

Cuba uses the term "blockade" to refer to the nearly five-decades-old economic embargo against the island.

The miners are pushing to replace the decades-old benchmark system with short-term contracts linked to the spot market.

Bashar Assad, Syria's president, lifted the decades-old emergency law and promised to free political prisoners.

Rainfall totals were above five centimeters in the normally dry region, shattering decades-old records.

However, some insisted that the decades-old KG system, in which more than 400, 000 Germans have investments, would survive.

Whatever happens, the decades-old benchmark system looks vulnerable.

Banks, for instance, use decades-old applications to manage customer accounts.

Of the agency's images, MyPlate, which replaced the decades-old Food Pyramid, most resembles a World War II-era Food Wheel.

A decades-old Maoist insurgency seeks the overthrow of the Indian state.

Virtualization is the new big thing, if "new" can include something over four decades old.

For those in academia, the find is a major breakthrough, and solves a decades-old mystery.

Hardly shocking, the now-decades-old HTML format is struggling to keep pace with innovation.

The man who would overturn this decades-old system is an unlikely revolutionary.

Australia's Labor government last month reversed a decades-old ban on uranium sales to India.

The 900-year-old Hindu temple was recently given World Heritage status, renewing a decades-old dispute over who owns the temple.

One organization used GIS to correct a decades-old disparity in water services.

Virtualization is not a new topic; in fact, it's over four decades old.

And even more fundamentally the country is working through the demographic shift wrought by the government's decades-old one-child policy.

The achievement could replace decades-old methods of generating electricity, such as combustion engines and turbines, the researchers say.

That's according to the FBI who pulled fingerprints off decades-old immigration papers.

The trouble is, "the analysis we're using is decades old" .

Just imagine what it will take to break the decades-old logjam of Security Council reform.

A decades-old debate about how to govern the semi-autonomous tribal areas shows no sign of producing an answer.

In some spots, decades-old astronaut footprints are still visible.

Altogether, 1. 82 million tourists have visited Taiwan since it lifted a decades-old ban on mainland visitors in July 2008.

There are around 2, 000 official spill sites in the region, some of them decades old.

this vaccine is based on decades - old technology and uses a live virus , called vaccinia , which is related to smallpox.

Thefuture of exploration should not rely on the decades old technology thatpowered us to the moon.

Through decades-old relationships with millions of households and businesses,