How To Use Long-standing In A Sentence
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What I find highly ironic and, indeed, perturbing, is that U.S. trade laws have in their application proven much more effective in inhibiting legitimate, cross-border, long-standing supplier-customer transactions carried on within a Canada-U.S. free trade environment than they have in dealing with these "dump and jump" boatloads of predatory imports.
Free Trade With the U.S.Only in a Dream World
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The three are thought to have had a blazing row over a long-standing feud.
The Sun
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Oxfam refutes the argument used by defenders of the WTO agreement that the impact will be minimal in the ‘Third World,’ since most diseases there are long-standing and can be treated using unpatented drugs.
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The KGB had a long-standing policy of planting `recruiters" in communities surrounding places like Sandia or Livermore.
DESTROY THE KENTUCKY
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The remainder is paid from the general fund, in long-standing recognition of the value to the general public of having a safe, efficient air transportation system (which, BTW, is the envy of the rest of the world, including Canada).
Matthew Yglesias » Nav Canada
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An influential government advisory panel yesterday recommended an end to long-standing opposition to manned space flight.
Times, Sunday Times
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US studies have suggested that the shift of long-standing smokers to low tar filter cigarettes results in the smoker inhaling more deeply and retaining smoke longer.
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This suddenly changed the long-standing political antagonism between the East and the West.
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The commercialisation of Christmas is a long-standing theme of writers like myself.
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Her elder son's wife was a long-standing irritant, like an ill-perforated toilet roll.
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Furthermore, long-standing untreated gonorrhoea and syphilis cause joint swelling and inflammation with the gradual erosion of complete joints in severe cases.
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I too am distressed at the construction of a bund to prevent the long-standing annual visits by Romany families to an Ilkley riverside location.
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I have a long-standing leg ulcer Just above my ankle so the left leg is bandaged from knee to toes.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the past, the debt has frequently been held solely by a long-standing relationship bank.
Times, Sunday Times
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We would need to have some kind of cojones to assume that an overpass qualifies as home ownership, or that such an eventuality was the outcome of the beautiful, long-standing vision you had for yourselves and your loved ones.
James Napoli: American Dream Downgraded to American Whimsical Notion
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Long-standing traditions of pottery, metalworking, rugmaking, woodcarving, and textile production have been carried forward by artisan and craft cooperatives.
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It also reconfirmed its anti-militarism manifest in its tiny regular army and long-standing neutrality.
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Patients with long-standing gout may have tophi over the olecranon prominence, first metatarsal joints, or pinnae.
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The sliest of them may be a series of line drawings spoofing the long-standing rivalry between the playwright Frank Chin and the novelist Maxine Hong Kingston.
Karen Tei Yamashita's "I Hotel" is a finalist for the National Book Award
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There are occasions where it is acceptable to consign the shipment directly to the importer, but it would be wise for the shipper to have a long-standing relationship with his/her customer, along with a good payment history, before agreeing to these terms.
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This helps you to solve a long-standing problem.
The Sun
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Finding a new platform to express their long-standing rivalry, both Britain and France opted out of judging for medals.
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Eduard Buchner (18601917) discovered that zymase, a cell-free yeast extract, caused fermentation, thus resolving a long-standing controversy over vital and inorganic ferments.
1882
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The list of parrying beliefs is ponderous and long-standing.
Ronald Thorpe: Become a Teacher
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The disagreement has affected long-standing friendships.
Times, Sunday Times
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Evidence that boosting levels further with folic acid supplements cuts birth defects is long-standing.
Times, Sunday Times
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They have lifted a long-standing moratorium on offshore oil and gas exploration as part of their commitment to doubling petroleum production.
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I have a long-standing interest in issues of cryptography - particularly as it relates to privacy laws.
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A long-standing friend of the royals defended the Prince.
Times, Sunday Times
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The political rationale for this initiative lay in nationalist concerns about Turkey, which prevailed during the period, as well as in the long-standing concerns about the 'demographic problem' given the low birth rate in Greece.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
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The modest widening in New Zealand's net international investment position once again highlights "the long-standing vulnerability for the NZ economy and the unlikelihood of a credit rating upgrade any time soon in our eyes," Goldman Sachs economist Philip Borkin said in a note.
New Zealand Current Account Deficit Widens
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It was also a reform which concentrated on a single, highly contentious aspect of transplantation law and ignored long-standing proposals for reform and European initiatives.
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Although from different ends of the political spectrum, Mr Kohl and Mitterrand enjoyed a long-standing and close personal friendship.
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Meat-free" is not a phrase that goes over well in Cuba, an island where long-standing privations have forged a strong, emotional bond with food – especially cuisine that once oinked, mooed or clucked.
It's Not Fun To Be A Vegetarian In Cuba
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I have a long-standing arrangement with the bank.
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This article will examine the academic study of English literature in the second quarter of the nineteenth century in order to suggest that literary scholars 'preference for metaphors of discontinuity is rooted in long-standing educational practices that have given the concept of literary culture its institutional form.
Culture and Discontinuity (in the 1840s and in Foucault)
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However, quarrying is a long-standing industry, one which was there centuries before tourism.
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With that advance, the time was right to address the long-standing question.
Smithsonian Insider
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Our data confirm recent findings indicating that the long-standing inverse relationship between social class and obesity has been lost, at least in the UK.
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It seems to be the end of a long-standing nightmare for Aban Offshore Ltd as it finally exited its equity interest in joint venture -- Venture Drilling AS -- which has been in murky waters since mid-2008, when the only ship used for drilling called Deep Venture that it chartered from a Russian enterprise ran into litigation.
Aban Emerging From the Depths
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Yet because of their long-standing ideology — emphatically expressed by George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld in the year or two before 9/11 — that peacekeeping is not what America should be doing, they never really made the effort to revamp the American military and other institutions of American government that would allow America to do this peacekeeping successfully.
Beinart Talks Back
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While this was a deviation for the English population (particularly the middle-class English), who had come from a legal tradition of primogeniture and impartible inheritance, it was less a departure for the Irish population, for whom communal property and partible inheritance had been long-standing customary practices.
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That long-standing consensus does not dispositively prove that the law is constitutional, but the fact that nobody claimed that FISA was unconstitutional until it was revealed that President Bush has been violating that law, is rather compelling evidence of just how weak and pretextual that claim is. posted by Glenn Greenwald | 10:22 AM
Gen. Hayden admits the Administration knew it was violating FISA
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Washington's motives are widely distrusted and its various foreign policy postures are viewed suspiciously, even by long-standing allies.
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In addition to discharging eligible patients, Gordon sought to change a series of other long-standing practices.
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They are on the brink of resolving their long-standing dispute over money.
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If McCall has to go, then it will break a long-standing tradition in football.
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She saw a lot of herself in my wife, who, in turn, never forgot the long-standing kindness that had been shown to her family.
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The brawl erupted over a long-standing feud between the two.
The Sun
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He was dismissed after the evangelical vicar discovered that he had long been cohabiting with his long-standing partner.
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Severe abdominal pain is the most common presentation, and diabetes mellitus and steatorrhoea often result from long-standing disease1.
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One of the observations will test a long-standing claim that clouds covering the Sun can sometimes part during an eclipse.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anne is unduly modest on her blog, but she is a long-standing author of Mills and Boon romances.
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in Danish mange tak and a long-standing wish that KNR will put their broadcasts on line already but I can't see anything wrong with 'Eskimo' for Eskimos or Gypsy for Romanis or Hungarian for Magyars, Finnish for Suomis etc. etc. etc.
Languagehat.com: LANGUAGE GUESSER.
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This is an outrageous perversion of the long-standing law that the creator has the exclusive right to license his work.
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The brawl erupted over a long-standing feud between the two.
The Sun
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The study confirms some long-standing folklore about the acuity of one of North America's most familiar birds—and offers new insight into how some wild animals may cope with living alongside people.
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Overcoming initial incredulity and long-standing revulsion for this raddled adventurer, from March 1790 the royal couple paid Mirabeau for support in the Assembly and regular advice.
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The brawl erupted over a long-standing feud between the two.
The Sun
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Rumours claimed the star had a long-standing health problem, which had caused him to suffer breathing difficulties.
The Sun
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It captures the essence of a short drink, and develops the brand without betraying its long-standing values.
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I have worked on both gill-netters and trollers, and I know that the disagreements and misunderstandings between their adherents are deep and long-standing.
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You continue infusing energy and romance in long-standing relationships.
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But if you read on, you find that this only means that some of the long-standing evidence deniers merely keep on denying the evidence.
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Does he speak for those invested in the long-standing ties of clientage and patronage between the Saudi and Bush royal families and their interlocking financial interests?
Marshall Grossman: Plan For Victory
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Apathy is the long-standing curse of British local democracy.
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Before the fight, Oscar made Floyd agree to a list of demands which would favor de la Hoya, namely that the two wear Reyes gloves (the so-called puncher's glove, which should have, in theory, been of benefit to Oscar, the bigger puncher of the two), a smaller ring (which would benefit Oscar's long-standing stamina problems), and most importantly, a 154 lb. weight limit.
East Side Boxing
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There has been a long-standing bullying relationship.
The Sun
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And Arsenal could discover they have made positive strides towards solving their long-standing goalkeeping crisis just a little too soon.
The Sun
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It was obviously a long-standing relationship.
The Sun
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(Last year, a long-standing proposal for a medal honoring organ donors finally became the Stephanie Tubbs-Jones Gift of Life Medal Act, after the Cleveland congresswoman died of a brain aneurysm and her family donated her organs.)
...With Functioning Kidneys for All
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Why is the administration proposing to abandon the long-standing tripwire function of U.S. forces in the country?
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First, it held unconstitutional the long-standing rule that injury was to be presumed from the mere fact of publication.
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The KGB had a long-standing policy of planting `recruiters" in communities surrounding places like Sandia or Livermore.
DESTROY THE KENTUCKY
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While communities and officials will honor long-standing hereditary rights to areas of land traditionally claimed by a given family, misused or abandoned land may be reapportioned for better use.
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McGrath, who has a long-standing thumb problem but who has passed himself fit, survived a strong lbw appeal early in his innings from Neil Carter after an inswinger struck him in front.
County cricket - as it happened
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I say no to all invitations to travel, but honour long-standing promises to appear in London and Aberdeen.
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My favorite long-standing Basque tradition is the love for their lyrical language, which, unlike Provençal, can still be heard on the street and in squares and shops.
French Word-A-Day:
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In light of its vast market power, Wal-Mart has infuriated the media with its long-standing refusal to stock obscene CDs and racy magazines.
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It helps to remind us of the long-standing peace between England and France and reminds us to continue that peace.
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In South America we are proud to have had part in the settlement of the long-standing dispute between Chile and Peru in the disposal of the question of Tacna-Arica.
State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
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Rather than imposing their own agenda onto Scripture, the scholastics were following long-standing patristic traditions of interpretation.
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We have given long-standing support to comprehensive education and we stand by that.
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The interview below is an example of his long-standing uncommunicativeness concerning any criminal active by himself or any others.
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Mineral undertakers have long-standing powers to obtain rights over land containing mineral deposits.
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Physicists at JILA have performed the first-ever precision measurements using ultracold molecules, in work that may help solve a long-standing scientific mystery -- whether so-called constants of nature have changed since the dawn of the universe.
April 28th, 2006
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Maria Aznar, fulfilled his long-standing ambition to win promotion to the status of a large medium-sized country.
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Nor should we forget his long-standing advocacy of studying material culture.
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This is the latest act of terrorism in a long-standing and bloody campaign of violence.
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Butcher was outstanding in Sunderland's defence, despite being troubled by a long-standing knee injury.
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So, too, the poetry of grief and lamentation is one of the deepest and most long-standing elements in poetry.
Día de los Muertos
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In this respect Hirschi shared the long-standing positivist rejection of the central tenet of classicism: deterrence.
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Their talents at brokering a peace after such long-standing hatred would be far more usefully employed bringing together real warring factions.
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The three are thought to have had a blazing row over a long-standing feud.
The Sun
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That is not to say that it is impossible to make a good adobe without straw, but speaks of the long-standing relationship between the two materials that is as old as anyone can remember.
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Milk contains tryptophan, which probably explains why a warm glass of milk at bedtime is a long-standing home remedy for sleeplessness.
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The flight prize was an easy choice for the leading lawman with a long-standing interest in aviation.
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The amendment arose from a long-standing interest in lessening human exposure to mercury, a known neurotoxin and nephrotoxin.
Thimerosal
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It also provided a window on the long-standing predilections of a generation or three of trustees who got goose-bumps when anything English strayed into their path.
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In addition, although many nonprescription products are described in the text and in tabular format, the long-standing approach of this text to list the active and inactive ingredients of virtually all products has been curtailed.
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Enlightened Jewish physicians wanted to cooperate with the government and override rabbinic authority but were unable to change this long-standing Jewish custom.
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New York's reputation as fashion capital of the United States is long-standing.
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He had been a long-standing enthusiast for home rule at a time when it merely served to reinforce his marginal status in the party.
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The depths to which goldstone, who purports to be a long-standing 'Zionist', totally identified himself with this crude anti Israel exercise, was exemplified in his recent NY Times op ed, in which he had the gall to compare Israel's defense against hamas to the atrocities committed in Darfur, where millions were displaced and over 200,000 civilians were raped and butchered.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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The brawl erupted over a long-standing feud between the two.
The Sun
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These values issues have fragmented long-standing party alliances and crossed traditional geographical and economic boundary lines.
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The long-standing state law limiting the tax exemption to refinancings with the "same lender" left that term undefined, but the Virginia attorney general's office has twice opined that "same lender" means the current holder of the debt.
Loan recording mess in Va. allows homeowners who don't qualify to get tax break
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The initial imposition of a Bavarian administration soon after Independence, the effort to shed traces of 'obscurantism' and the 'barbarity' of Ottoman rule; the Western bourgeois invasion of local customs and traditions; the long-standing effort to reconcile the Ottoman past with the legacy of Greece as the centre of European civilisation; and the intense conflict between right and left visions of Greek society since the Second World War have all generated tensions about national identity that have often found expression through various treatments of the 'woman question'.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
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Unusual as she clearly was, Malalai Kakar was also part of a long-standing tradition of Afghan women who "outman" their men in bravery.
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And in some situations reclaimed land is already degraded and faces long-standing feral animal or weed infestation problems and future risks.
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The Evolution of Rheic Ocean: From Avalonian-Cadomian Active Margin to Alleghenian-Variscan Collision addresses long-standing controversies surrounding the ocean's origin, paleogeography, and ultimate closure.
Speedlinking 10/9/07
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Much of the intertribal strife of the seventeenth century originated in long-standing competitiveness and jealously which was highly exacerbated by the introduction of European goods.
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This follows a string of long-standing complaints from MPs about the lack of water dispensers in the Parliamentary complex, forcing them to drink "unhygienic" water collected from the taps in the bathrooms.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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They cite long-standing inequalities, in income levels, in opportunities, especially for youth, and in access to social services as the root cause of the struggle for change.
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They also have a similarity to the small blood vessels damaged in long-standing diabetes.
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I've known him for a few years and he told me he was meeting with lawyers to deal with some long-standing, unhandled business issues that were now rearing their ugly head.
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He argues that in the current period the melding of ghetto and prison through various carceral strategies is the latest method devised for achieving these long-standing objectives.
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All the while, I'd be serenaded by the musicians in the street, who continue the long-standing tradition that has given the world rhumba, mambo, and son.
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Yes, processed food * may* be high in fats and sugars, but that is NOT true for most kibbled dog food made by long-standing dog food companies like Purina.
Terrierman's Daily Dose
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Sarah Palin has put a new face and voice to the long-standing, powerful, but inchoate movement in US political life that one might see as a mutant variety of Poujadism, inflected with a modern American accent.
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In addition to discharging eligible patients, Gordon sought to change a series of other long-standing practices.
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Thus begins another skirmish in Devinsky's long-standing war on the fecklessness of youth, their natural tendency to forget their medication, stay up all night working on a term paper and propel themselves into a hypernormal state by swilling vodka or cough medicine.
In the Grip of the Unknown
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With that advance, the time was right to address the long-standing question.
Smithsonian Insider
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Her elder son's wife was a long-standing irritant, like an ill-perforated toilet roll.
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As a struggling performer, Gleason ran a long-standing tab at a Philadelphia restaurant, Hackett said.
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Investigators would not disclose other details of the probe but described it as a long-standing investigation that stretches nationwide.
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Labour’s change from wanting less state intervention contradicts with their long-standing strands of centralisation, and so when localisation is carried out it is often tokenism.
2009 July « My Political Ramblings…
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The second jam session is on Wednesday and Bejazzled continue their long-standing residency at the Old White Swan on Thursday.
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He continued to write operettas and finally realised his long-standing intention, to compose an Irish operetta.
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Now funds have been obtained to meet the long-standing demand for a roundabout at the junction of Mill Green Road.
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The press release for Professor Andy Meharg's book Venomous Earth, "scientific, cultural and political history of arsenic", mentions further arsenical anecdotes such as the Madeleine Smith case, William Morris wallpapers, and the origin of a long-standing Scottish prejudice against green sweets (a fondness of traders in 19th century Greenock for the toxic Scheele's Green - copper arsenite - as a food dye in confectionery).
Arsenic
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The incident was believed to have arisen out of a long-standing territorial dispute between two companies.
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But according to sniffy British sources, the arrests were the result of a long-standing intelligence operation that began long before the American alerts.
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Nine unions called the latest stoppage in a long-standing protest by workers against privatisation plans.
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They fear the change will be too stressful and that long-standing relationships with staff will be shattered.
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All long-standing relationships need refreshing from time to time.
The Sun
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Maria Aznar, fulfilled his long-standing ambition to win promotion to the status of a large medium-sized country.
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This need not be expensive, but it will require greater participation, an active dialog within the community, and a willingness to question some of our long-standing traditions.
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A more long-standing problem for artificial hearts is powering the beat without restricting a patient's mobility.
Times, Sunday Times
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During her 'gap year', as she described it, she found time to row single-handed around the world backwards, and also carried out the first solo trek by a woman to both Poles, in doing so beating Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'long-standing speed record.
Obituary - Jade Goody 1981-2009
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The detector was designed to work on the long-standing solar neutrino problem.
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You infuse energy and romance in long-standing relationships and rejuvenate them.
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They believe that Washington's "hegemonism" represents the unjust continuation of long-standing
Israelated - English Israel blogs
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Some conceits concerning Scottish education are exactly that, but there has been a long-standing tradition of higher rates of participation at university which dates back to medieval times.
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Unlike trick or treat, Mischief Night is a long-standing British tradition.
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Quite why the Spanish are identified with long-standing unofficial working practices escapes me.
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The move buttresses Hormel's long-standing strategy to form joint ventures with Mexican, Asian, Indian and Mediterranean brands to cater to the growing ethnic population.
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‘He has surrounded himself with a mafia of yes-men,’ said one long-standing and well-respected tour professional.
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The new contemporary art of China and the United States approaches, modifies and revitalizes existing, long-standing traditions," says curator Shore.
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Butcher was outstanding in Sunderland's defence, despite being troubled by a long-standing knee injury.
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Milk prices are the most long-standing problem and he particularly wanted support from the dairy industry.
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It is also a sport that has a long-standing connection with Scotland.
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There is evidence that long-standing asthma or non-usage of steroid inhalers for asthma can lead to changes in the structure of the airways and partly irreversible airflow limitation.
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After a half-century of division, the countries of east and west Europe could end their long-standing isolation.
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They may have very few friends so you feel pressure to be there for them, especially if you are a long-standing friend.
The Sun
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He jocularly observed, on one occasion, to a creditor, who peremptorily required payment of the interest due on a long-standing debt, 'My dear sir, you know it is not my _interest_ to pay the
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832
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Pipe is generally manufactured to several long-standing and broadly applicable industrial standards (such as ASME/ANSI B36. 10/B36. 19).
Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
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Founded to settle long-standing territorial disputes and to demilitarize borders, the organization now stresses counterterrorism cooperation and regional trade.
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Cliff is just too common to be accepted into a world dominated by the likes of long-standing regional bowls champion Ray Smith.
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Delia Smith has been a long-standing customer, and features the firm's eggs on the front of one of her cookery books.
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Although other neighboring countries had had similar problems with Ukraine, the shutoff was a PR disaster for Gazprom, which had enjoyed a long-standing reputation as a reliable supplier of natural gas, through pipelines in Ukraine, to Europe.
HBS Working Knowledge
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That long-standing consensus does not dispositively prove that the law is constitutional, but the fact that nobody claimed that FISA was unconstitutional until it was revealed that President Bush has been violating that law, is rather compelling evidence of just how weak and pretextual that claim is. posted by Glenn Greenwald | 10:22 AM links to this post
Archive 2006-05-01
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Set in the world of publishing, Pinter's play lays bare the tangled relationships of its three main characters together with all the hurts of a long-standing affair.
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There was a long-standing tradition of professionalism, which centred around jockeys and pugilists for the most part.
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The long-standing puzzle of whether fish can sleep has been solved by a study that has shown that they like a lie-in after a disturbed night.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's even a rumour flying around that it might be Manchester City, given Keane's long-standing friendship with Stuart Pearce.
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He says Scotland in Europe seems still to conjure up something of a distant challenge and this is despite the Scots' long-standing reputation for internationalism.
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This multidisciplinary team consists of physicians, social workers, nurses, psychologists and other hospital personnel who have a long-standing interest and extensive experience in diagnosing and providing intervention for abused children.
Child Abuse and Neglect Fellowship
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‘The pace and content of reform in any particular country or region would be greatly enhanced with the resolution of long-standing conflicts in the region,’ the statement said.
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One of the observations will test a long-standing claim that clouds covering the Sun can sometimes part during an eclipse.
Times, Sunday Times
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Key to the skepticism is a long-standing debate over a technique known as "facilitated communication," in which assistants help people with limited speech by holding or guiding them as they type.
Film gives voice to autism's silent minority
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Severe abdominal pain is the most common presentation, and diabetes mellitus and steatorrhoea often result from long-standing disease1.
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Prima facie, the long-standing problems of trisecting an angle, squaring a circle, and doubling a cube are not questions of existence.
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The brawl erupted over a long-standing feud between the two.
The Sun
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Constructing an expansive environmental narrative enabled activists to find new ways to seek, and sometimes achieve, long-standing political goals.
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If you're a member of the Thermodynamic Law Party: Without institutionalized marriage keeping open the possibility of energy exchange with the rest of society, gay couples will become adiabatically closed systems, preventing them from importing negentropy and thereby increasing, not decreasing, the entropy of such non-traditional but long-standing family units.
Archive 2008-10-01
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Turkey has been a long-standing party to all international nuclear non-proliferation regimes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The stretch of District Line between Southfields and East Putney station has had long-standing problems with graffiti, but previous approaches to London Underground have proved unfruitful.
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The causes are something a historian can study and document: the colonial period where long-standing social orders were overturned to serve colonial interests, and not-so-deep-seated animosities between the two main ethnic groups were exacerbated; the hatred of Tutsis that Hutu regimes inculcated even deeper into peasants for years so that most of these poor people at one point actually began to believe Tutsis were devil-like beings with tails and that killing them was their duty; teaming masses of impoverished urban Hutus (of the kind a Marxist would call the lumpen proletariat) murdering their Tutsi neighbors so they would cart off their property and rape their women (just like peasants murdering their neighbor to take his piece of land), and so endlessly on.
AllAfrica News: Latest
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One of the observations will test a long-standing claim that clouds covering the Sun can sometimes part during an eclipse.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sen. Kyle [sic] is a long-standing senator from Arizona and expert on immigration.
Terry Krepel: A Laughable, Error-Ridden 'Case for Impeachment'
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But really, the hire is a re-assertion of long-standing CSO tradition.
Archive 2008-05-01
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One central aspect of the disturbances in the mid-1990s was that local residents had become weary of the long-standing busy trade in ‘kerb-crawling’ prostitution along Lumb Lane which is one of its main traffic arteries.
I'd Stick To Attacking Christians If I Were You, Mate
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It is, after all, an environment in which genres featuring androgynous males have a long-standing tradition.
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In January 2004, the Tories and Lib Dems both voted against the tuition fee bill along with 72 Labour backbenchers, united in deploring a measure that broke with Britain's long-standing tradition of offering free public education.
University fees are going to rise. They have to be fair to the poor
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Long-standing grievances over environmental and health issues erupted soon after the downfall of Suharto.
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This performance stands alone as our tribute to the work and the life of our long-standing friend.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Labour candidate unexpectedly overturned the long-standing Tory majority.
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Washington also is stalling on Taiwan's long-standing request for diesel-electric submarines.
Taiwan Seeks to Move U.S. on Arms Sales
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The occasion afforded staff the opportunity of paying tribute to a long-standing member of staff.
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It seems the long-standing fashion for north European looks is now fully and officially dead.
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The firm has a long-standing relationship with Morrisons dating back more than 30 years.
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The Choctaw were surrounded by Confederates and held long-standing grievances against the United States.
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Perhaps the major threat to sterling comes from the long-standing association between the British and US economies.
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a long-standing friendship
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The reality of there being a significant number of lapsed Catholics is a long-standing part of Catholic culture.
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But Poland and the rest of Central Europe suffered under communism only for slightly over forty years; Poland was never fully communized economically (with private agriculture and with some services and retail trade remaining in private hands) nor ideologically (with a strong and independent Catholic church defying the Marxist doctrines), and moreover Central Europe has had long-standing ties with Western Europe.
Out of Control
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We propose a new dynamic model in order to help reconcile the long-standing controversy in Central Asia.
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You can sum up situations fast and find solutions to long-standing problems.
The Sun
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I personally interpret his hint as suggesting long-standing federates who had stayed on and acquired power after coming to Britain to work either for the Late Roman army or for a post-Roman successor state that still followed Roman forms of military organisation.
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