21.   In the ensuing decades, the Commonwealth opened its doors to many newly independent republics from Asia, Africa and the Caribbean.

22.   In the ensuing Cold War decades, it targeted spies working for the former Soviet Union and its allies.

23.   In the ensuing decades, as other Liberty Ships deteriorated and were scrapped, the Brown was faithfully maintained by teachers and students.

24.   King went on to record dozens of albums over the ensuing decades.

25.   The British gained sovereignty over New Zealand and promised the Maori land rights, a promised that was usually routinely ignored in the ensuing decades.

26.   That revolution and the ensuing decade of the government fight against U.S.-backed Contra rebels have left Nicaragua the second-poorest country in the hemisphere after Haiti.

27.   The British promised the Maori land rights, a promised that was routinely ignored in the ensuing decades as settler governments seized Maori land.

28.   Despite changes in the political majority, similar arrangements have been kept in place during the ensuing decade.