Yet in recent years, authorities have softened their stand on gays -- at least unofficially.
Yet in recent years Pakistani cricket has become more representative of an increasingly conservative and put-upon society.
Yet in recent years, some of America's largest corporations have paid zero tax.
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Yet in recent years MLB owners have stopped complaining about losing money.
Yet in recent years Salafism, which has gained followers throughout the Muslim world, has made inroads in Tatarstan, especially among the young.
Yet in recent years, for many reasons, American politics has become more strident and divided, and often along personal rather than ideological lines.
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Yet in recent years the threats to India's security have diminished.
Yet, in recent years, acquisitions of American energy-related assets by state-owned oil firms such as Saudi Arabia's Aramco and Venezuela's PDVSA failed to elicit so much as a murmur.
Yet, in recent years, marketers started showing up in ever increasing numbers, seeking to hone their creative skills by viewing the best creative material from all over the world, attending seminars, and just generally rubbing elbows with top notch creative talent.
It has also bought back shares in recent years yet maintains a pristine, virtually debt free balance sheet.
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Yet both have suffered losses in recent years, and have witnessed growing dissatisfaction among doctors and patients, increasing government regulation and rising health-care costs.
The sport shares the same big market-small market division of interests that the NBA and NHL do, yet little has flared up in recent years.
Yet we have been so obsessed in recent years with celebrating diversity that we have forgotten to celebrate our commonality.
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Bin Laden was a greater threat to Pakistan than to America in recent years, yet Pakistanis behave as if they regret his death.
Mounting research has established the importance of immigrant entrepreneurs to the U.S. economy, both historically and in recent years, yet the United States continues to turn away people who want to enter the country and create companies and jobs.
Yet Katanga has enjoyed relative peace in recent years, in large part thanks to the province's popular governor Moise Katumbi, a billionaire Roman Abramovich-esque character who has regulated the region's previously chaotic natural mineral extraction and bankrolled TP Mazembe in the process.
Consumer spending has driven growth in recent years, and as yet shows no conclusive signs of cooling off.
But for all their collective success in recent years, South Korea has yet to produce an individual golfer to dominate the game in the way that Sweden's Annika Sorenstam did in the early 2000s or Lorena Ochoa of Mexico did in the latter half of the decade.
One of the largest energy transactions in recent years, the deal is yet another expansion of an empire that the 66-year-old Kinder has built by cobbling together slow-growing, unsexy pipeline and storage assets dumped by the likes of Enron, Dynegy, Shell and ConocoPhillips, and focusing relentlessly on cutting costs.
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No wonder Mr Trimble so often seemed an embattled figure... and yet to those of us who have followed him in recent years one of his personal trademarks was the perverse manner in which moments of deep crisis in Northern Ireland's never-ending political negotiating process sometimes seemed to inspire him to a kind of jaunty calm.
Getting into the middle class and staying there has been growing ever harder in recent years, he lamented, and yet the rich have got ever richer.
Yet this year's fair might be one of the best in recent years for real consumers.
Yet this year's furniture fair might be one of the best in recent years for real consumers.
In recent years companies have been relentlessly paring back expenses, yet despite the cost-cutting, hundreds of thousands of new businesses have been created.
Yet gay-bashing has continued to flare up in New York at times in recent years.
Yet, the celebrity culture masks one of the most worrying trends in society in recent years.
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Yet the basic assumptions of that bombing campaign have been turned on their head in recent years.
Yet, after recent rioting by Protestant paramilitaries who have killed scores in the past ten years, Mr Paisley's scepticism sounded like a substitute for political engagement.
Apple Inc. has in recent years seen the startling success of its revolutionary gadgets, yet according to BrandIndex data, it is the Apple brand itself which still has the best consumer perception of all brands under the Apple umbrella.
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In recent years, oil production capacity in the US has grown rapidly yet prices have hardly collapsed.
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