What has it been hitherto in the political order?

Even hitherto independent central banks have not escaped the creep toward state sponsored capitalism.

Even hitherto sensible anthropologists and social historians seem to have succumbed to this travesty of scholarship.

Karl Marx says, The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.

The electoral process in Indonesia is reaching a level of equity and accountability hitherto unknown in that country.

(b) Extending the use of the riel into those zones in which it has not hitherto been used

It was revealed to her that besides that instinctive life she had lived hitherto there was also a spiritual life.

'I must tell you that I can't come because the family connection hitherto subsisting between us must now be severed.'

He felt himself knocked quite out of the rut along which he had hitherto trodden so proudly and so lightly.

He will thus contribute to a reconciliation of the hitherto nationalist French right and modern conservatism as it is practiced elsewhere.

A sense of alienation towards the West is spreading, and Turkey s diplomatic relations with Russia have reached a hitherto unknown intimacy.

The international community must therefore recognize that it is not enough to promote, organize, or monitor elections in hitherto undemocratic countries.

A hitherto latent rivalry between Iran and Israel thus has been transformed into an open struggle for dominance in the Middle East.

The election of the militant and hitherto extra parliamentary group Hamas in the Palestinian territories reminds us of what democracy cannot achieve.

These could address such hitherto intractable diseases as Parkinson's disease and diabetes, or even such scourges such as end stage heart failure.

He felt that all his powers, hitherto dissipated and scattered, were now concentrated and directed with terrible energy toward one blissful aim.

After becoming President, Vladimir Putin consolidated central authority, a campaign that culminated in 2005 with presidential appointments of hitherto elected federal governors.

Hitherto EU governments have largely pretended that enlargement is a small scale serial process, with individual new members coming in one after another.

Mr. Bush's international credibility, they should emphasize, does not suffer through avoiding a war but gains further through controlling Iraq's hitherto covert military effort.

Thanks to them, millions of poorer and hitherto excluded families became homeowners, investors made high returns, and financial intermediaries pocketed the fees and commissions.

As a result, the utterly powerless, hitherto quite obscure Liu Xiaobo, has become not only world famous, but much better known inside China, too.

Hasn't the US administration implied as much, speaking of its vision of a Palestinian state and sometimes criticizing Israeli policy with hitherto unseen severity?

Mr. Bush's international credibility, they should emphasize, does not suffer through avoiding a war but gains further through controlling Iraq's hitherto covert military effort.

This autumn, he promoted his hitherto little seen son, Kim Jong un, to the rank of general, and introduced him at a Communist Party conference.

This represents a huge regulatory black hole at the center of the global financial system, hitherto not closely monitored for monetary and financial stability purposes.

Opposition parties, human rights groups, and other government critics, hitherto cowed by a seemingly omnipotent Obasanjo and PDP machine, have found a new lease on life.

When the Jamaican team finally appeared, flag bearer and champion sprinter Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce's hair (which had hitherto been under wraps) was the talk of Twitter.

Civil society groups in Germany, Austria, and elsewhere mobilized to a hitherto unseen extent to meet together with the public authorities the enormous challenge posed by the influx.

The doctor whom Levin had fetched, and whom he had found at a club, was not the one who had hitherto attended Nicholas, with whom the patient was dissatisfied.

Zharov said the watchdog had had offers from Russian media analytics powerhouses Medialogia and Ashmanov and partners, but ended up picking a third (hitherto unknown) company to develop their system.

In concert with the development bank s virtuous impact, credit and investment flows would flood the Greek economy s hitherto arid realms, eventually helping the bad bank turn a profit and become good.

But the old member states that have hitherto benefited most from the budget poorer countries like Spain, Greece, and Portugal want the budget to be expanded, so that they can continue to receive money.

For Russia, a new treaty would allow it to live with the hitherto nightmare scenario of Ukrainian accession to NATO as long as the pact remained in force, Ukraine s membership would have no military consequences.

In early October, Iranian officials met in Geneva with representatives of the permanent members of the UN Security Council (plus Germany) and agreed to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect the hitherto secret plant.

The West has established the economic model of the twenty first century, with its hitherto unheard of standard of living, and almost all nations and regions are trying to equal it, no matter what the cost.

Indeed, recent assessments by the British Antarctic Survey suggest that temperatures over the Antarctic have increased 3.6 degrees since the early 1970 s, and that warming is taking place far faster than researchers had hitherto believed.

Both choices are fraught with danger open up, and they include people in Saudi public life hitherto considered unworthy for being either heretics (the Shia) or of impure blood (the Hejazis) or too primitive (the border tribes).

And that Death which was present in this dear brother (who, waking up, moaned and by habit called indiscriminately on God and on the devil) was not so far away as it had hitherto seemed to be.

Affirmative action , as it was called, consisted of rules that set aside a certain percentage of representation among candidates for office, students and teachers, police and the military, and in other walks of life to members of hitherto disadvantaged groups.

Indeed, while the FDIC and the BoE were working on their plan, the US Federal Reserve was developing proposals that will expose overseas banks in the US to a far tighter set of controls, and closer supervision, than they have hitherto experienced.

This represents a huge regulatory black hole at the center of the global financial system, hitherto not closely monitored for monetary and financial stability purposes. Its importance was exposed only by analysis of the key roles played by structured investment vehicles (SIVs) and money market funds (MMFs) in the 2008 meltdown.