But private investment will not be enough to overcome decades of stagnation.

Only in the last few years have Japan and China been able to overcome decades of hostility and suspicion to improve economic and political ties.

He watched and waited, his need and desperation overcoming decades of studied discipline.

The Syrian economy is still struggling to overcome decades of corrupt central control, and to attract foreign investment and create jobs.

Japan is slowly overcoming decades of reticence about building and using military forces.

Your suggestion that keeping the books in Lithuania would serve as "an inspiration to a city still struggling to overcome decades of repression" is naive.

Many Shiites were genuinely grateful to Syria for helping them overcome decades of marginalization.

In the meantime, what is being lost is the idea that adopting a Western-style democracy here could could overcome decades of ethnic grievances.

The new Government in South Africa will have its hands full trying to overcome decades of apartheid and the hatreds and divisions it engendered.

The country must also overcome decades of being considered the most corrupt nation in South America, a reputation that has discouraged foreign investment.