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Although they have much in common as sites of worship and fellowship, Trinity Boston and Saddleback represent different phases in the centuries-long development of American religion.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Barbour is just a guy who loves black culture and appreciates the centuries-long struggle for equality.

HUFFPOST HILL - Boehner Plays Down Budget Agreement Eliot Nelson 2011

It's a one-book explanation for the current move to the left in a growing number of Latin American countries, tracing a centuries-long history of rapine and plunder, of genocide and dictatorship, first at the hands of Spain, and more recently under the baleful influence of the US, which operated directly or by proxy to ensure that nothing would ever change.

Archive 2009-04-01 2009

Of course, the Bantu massacred in vast numbers by the Boers and British in South Africa had met the Europeans while in the centuries-long process of exterminating the entire indigenous population of Africa between Lake Victoria and the Drakensburg.

Matthew Yglesias » Checkpoint Kabul 2010

Oslo remains marked by second-rate brick structures, souvenirs of its centuries-long status as a dependent of the Danish and Swedish crowns.

Scanning Norway's Barcode Horizon J. S. Marcus 2011

Let us rephrase that: Barbour is just a guy who loves black culture and appreciates the centuries-long struggle for equality and recently had to clarify that he opposes slavery.

HUFFPOST HILL - Boehner Plays Down Budget Agreement Eliot Nelson 2011

The crusades were thus the first attempt to reverse this centuries-long history of aggression.

Jay Rubenstein: Myths About Crusade Myths: Were They Defensive Wars? Jay Rubenstein 2011

Nobody knows what will happen next in what ecologists see as a gigantic, unplanned, centuries-long experiment.

The Real Story of Globalization Charles C. Mann 2011

The crusades were thus the first attempt to reverse this centuries-long history of aggression.

Jay Rubenstein: Myths About Crusade Myths: Were They Defensive Wars? Jay Rubenstein 2011

Ajanta is my favorite, both for its spectacular natural setting and its centuries-long devotion to one of India's great cultural traditions, Buddhism.

Buddha of the Material World Michael FitzGerald 2011