Dr. VITROGONSKAYA: (Through Translator) We used to be embarrassed and frightened to give bribes.
"We are a net importer where we used to be a net exporter, " he told BBC Scotland.
Whites use the yardstick of how far we have come from the nation we used to be.
"We used to be a series of small companies strung together, following our customers around the world, " says Cloues, 59.
We used to be data poor, now the problem is data obesity.
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We used to be calorie poor and now the problem is obesity.
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And where we used to be ranked number one, for example, in the proportion of college graduates, we now rank number 12.
"They do not like the fact that we are not fat and sloppy as shoppers as we used to be for the taxpayers, " he said.
Seriously, we used to be a serious country with serious leaders.
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We used to be born into our social engagements.
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That includes, by the way, making sure that we meet our 2020 goal of once again having the highest rate of college graduation in the world. (Applause.) We used to be number one.
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"We used to be about fishing and exporting to Scandinavia, now with the renewables we've got a reason for being again, so I think it's absolutely critical for us over the next few years, that we take that opportunity for the local supply chain, " said Dr Sewell.
"Wealth-management products we issued used to be snapped out before the sales deadline, but now we find it hard to sell them all, " the manager said.
We are seeing what used to be, as we noted earlier, the Mecca for manufacturing, and that is this country turned out almost everything to a degree that there was world dominance, and over the decades, we have seen that shift and change, yet we haven't seen America change with that shift.
It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other.
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We all just used to be in awe of him, just being in his presence.
Over the last several years, we have done a lot to make our relations different from what they used to be, and we stand high chances to continue this positive trend and develop it further on.
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Like we said, we got really used to it and found it to be more comfortable than a number of mice we've used over the past few months just because we are able to just tilt our hand to rest on the mouse.
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In a Zuckbergian vision of the future, no doubt every last action, from the toilet we used to the sidewalk we walked on will be carefully monitored and recorded until everything that makes a person a person can be filed away, clicked, and used to maximize ad revenues.
"It's those times when we remember how it used to be, " says his mom.
As we walk down what used to be uptown Livingstone, the erosion of a century of life is obvious.
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