0 past simple and past participle of exist --
1 to be, or to be real: --
2 to live, or to live in difficult conditions: --
By 1941, several of the new states in the region no longer existed, and very few had any real freedom of action.
A large overlap existed between the guild members and the janissaries after the latter began to moonlight as artisans and shopkeepers in the 17th century.
They described artists with low prestige as 'useless', arguing that they 'could have never existed and it would not have changed anything about anything'.
So long as a gap between potential and realized public authority existed, failure could be ascribed to this void.
But no such land actually existed; it was merely an atmospheric mirage.
They struggled with the definitions, especially for ' indirect ' age discrimination, but three-quarters believed that it existed in their services, while a quarter were doubtful.
Although a stock market had existed since the end of the 1890s, it was dominated by small businessmen and was relatively undeveloped.
By the eighteenth century this distinction no longer existed.
