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The “prayer” lasted for no more than 40 seconds, at which point security personnel expelled the performers.
The First Kashmir War lasted until 1948, at which point India took the issue to the United Nations Security Council, which resulted in a cease-fire that left India in possession of roughly two-thirds of the state.
It is far more defensible and correct to argue that everyone – bankers, households, regulators, and politicians – contributed to (and took credit for) the boom while it lasted, only to point fingers at one another when it collapsed.
The negotiations, which lasted five years, were undertaken with great care and diligence.
Thus, unlike the short risk-off periods in 2015 and 2016, which lasted just two months, investors have now been in risk-off mode since February, and markets are still moving sideways or downward.
Yet the reality is that Trump’s plan will deepen American involvement in a military mission that has already lasted for 16 years.
Moreover, the last price trough lasted more than 20 years, implying that Russia cannot expect simply to wait it out.
West Virginia’s bout of default and restructuring lasted until 1919.
Had the European Central Bank been entitled to deploy enough firepower when the Greek crisis first erupted, the threat would have lasted only two hours.
But no other ideology was offered, and the crisis – the slow rot of the system that became clear during the era of stagnation under Leonid Brezhnev – that began with Khrushchev’s speech lasted another 30 years, until Mikhail Gorbachev took up his mantle of change.
That silence lasted until 1961, when Khrushchev permitted new revelations of Stalin-era crimes.
This second anti-Stalinist campaign lasted two years, which was not nearly enough to change the country’s mentality.
Yet the undoubted origin of the conflict is the region’s extreme poverty, which was made disastrously worse in the 1980’s by a drought that has essentially lasted until today.
During the 27 years that it lasted, huge growth in international trade, supported by non-volatile pricing, was the norm, and large financial crises were absent.
The first official rationale for Comey’s dismissal lasted all of two days.
The South Paris workers’ good fortune lasted for just 14 years.
The Cold War had lasted so long that change seemed unimaginable until freedom burst forth.
One reason why it used to take roughly 13 years for a Jesuit to reach ordination was the long indoctrination in orthodoxy required for priests who, unlike “regular clergy” (whose training lasted half that time), would be mobile and beyond the direct control of bishops.
US involvement was especially heavy during the administrations of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Gerald Ford and lasted until the 1990s.
Since the end of World War II, US-China relations have gone through three phases that lasted roughly two decades each.
It was a slow-motion natural catastrophe that lasted for months.
But it has lasted for too long, and is now well out of date – a reality that is apparent from its opening line: “Europe has never been so prosperous, so secure, nor so free.”
But does this really mean that the British Raj should have lasted longer?
It lasted for nearly a century, until the early 1980’s.
As a result, many of the most widely prescribed drugs today were subject to a long process of preclinical experimentation, followed by clinical studies that lasted several years and cost millions of dollars, before gaining regulators’ approval.
And he would have to battle a folk memory that has lasted several generations: the last time Britain helped to save Europe, it stood very much, and very proudly, alone.
The downturn was so severe, and lasted so long, that some even used the term “depression,” before settling on “Great Recession.”
It lasted only 9 years but its impact equals the age of Peter the Great and the October Revolution.
Vietnam’s strategic position – as a neighbor of China, situated parallel to the great sea trade routes of Asia – always made the country tremendously important, which may be one reason why its anti-colonial wars lasted so long.
In a war that lasted barely a month, 250,000 Chinese front-line soldiers were thrashed by 100,000 Vietnamese border-militia troops.
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