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864 examples of Yesterday in a sentence

It contains today and yesterday and helps the understanding of the true history of the American Indian.
I got this film yesterday and I absolutely loved it.
Yesterday, three years into the process, the UK convened an important EITI conference in London attended by representatives of governments, business, and civil society.
At the opposite extreme are the debt-ceiling absolutists who want governments to start balancing their budgets tomorrow (if not yesterday).
Their choice is between the insecure, war-prone Europe of yesterday and the confident, united Europe of tomorrow.
The number of votes cast yesterday for UKIP candidates still points to a hard fight by the government to keep Britain in Europe.
As we embark upon the still-new millennium, though, it seems ironically clear that tomorrow's possible disorder might be due, in no small part, to yesterday's colonial order.
We cannot return to the world of yesterday or simply stand still; and we do not yet know what the world of tomorrow has in store for us.
Then just add a few ingredients – maybe some vegetables, some ham bones from yesterday, a few spices – and you will soon have a delicious, life-giving soup with magical healing properties.
On the contrary, today's commonplaces were yesterday's innovations.
But the return of nationalist sentiment within Europe today creates a sense of emulation and competition, which proved instrumental in the rise of Asia yesterday.
But this logic is for the world of yesterday – and even then, it didn’t quite work.
But the Brexit vote – with its promise to recreate the Britain of yesterday – is less revolution than counter-revolution.
They may succeed in unraveling the EU, but they are unlikely to deliver on their promise of recreating the world of yesterday, much less a better future.
While Morsi has now bowed to pressure to annul a decree granting him powers without judicial oversight, it seems only yesterday that people were prepared to put their fears aside and trust that Morsi was ready to rule in the interests of all Egyptians.
Two years ago, Akinwumi A. Adesina, the AfDB’s president, lamented that many African countries were “essentially training our youths for the jobs of yesterday, not the jobs of the future.”
The time to step up was yesterday; the time to adopt a new approach is now.
Ultimately, whether this is due to self-insurance or to exchange-rate targeting matters little: yesterday this unproductive growth in reserves was an indirect cause of the crisis; today it is undermining demand.
They are present in highly developed countries, but above all in entire regions of the world that are suspended between a yesterday that no longer exists and a tomorrow that has not yet come into being.
Yesterday it was the Indian novelist Salman Rushdie; today it is the Algerian novelist Kamel Daoud.
If there are less people working today than yesterday, it is because more people have decided not to work.
Poland, but also Hungary and the Czech Republic, believed they were joining yesterday's NATO - an alliance to protect Europe against threats from the East.
Yesterday, they felt discriminated against.
Yesterday, intelligence without power led to immense suffering.
Any mention of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, by which Great Britain and France partitioned the post-Ottoman territories, still incites such rage in the Arab world that it seems as if the plan, devised in secret in 1916, had been conceived only yesterday.
Yesterday, Europe was the solution for Germany; today, it is the problem.
Yesterday, Europe guaranteed that Germany would never again go astray; today, it is the impediment that threatens the country’s hard-won financial and economic stability.
Yesterday China was an anti-capitalist lodestar for utopian revolutionaries; today it has become an ultra-liberal nemesis for a new generation of utopian reactionaries – the defenders of the status quo in Europe.
It seems like only yesterday that Goldman Sachs analysts were celebrating the growth miracle of the “BRICS” (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) and the International Monetary Fund, in its April 2013 World Economic Outlook, was forecasting a three-speed global recovery led by emerging markets.
As Pinchas Goldschmidt, President of the Conference of European Rabbis, recently remarked, one cannot be proud of the Jews of yesterday and tell the Jews of today that their religious practices are no longer welcome.
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