We've had to focus on the past and the future, because we didn't have much of a present.

Whatever the cause, the focus remains on the South and the past.

However, I find that the time has come to turn the page on the past, and to look to the future.

Very well, he thought, turning his back on the past.

However you looked on the past, or the present, something was missing.

But the war on the past is not unique to America.

Maybe the present is never in a position to make final judgment calls on the past.

The future development of such a system depends on the past.

You'd think that once you're an adult, you could just close the door on the past.

Rather than go all the way back to 1955, let's zero in on the more recent past.