There are global conditions brewing, however, that are about to disrupt that longstanding situation, and as a result, America is about to enter a period of much greater risk.
He was speaking at the introduction of a study into industrial overcapacity in China, a longstanding situation that the chamber believes has grown more serious as a result of the global financial meltdown and Beijing's aggressive response to it.
This was amended to more accurately reflect Wollaston's view that this "subsidy" is a current and longstanding situation that ministers need to address.
Therefore it is not clear whether participants' responses reflect a longstanding situation or just a brief, temporary reaction.
The background to the current situation is the longstanding belligerent policies of the US and its allies, encouraged by the neoconservatives and the Israeli lobby, which peaked during eight years of Republican rule in the White House.
That situation intensifies the longstanding threat from Cold War nuclear arsenals - even with significant cuts back in the Reagan era.
Respectful of the longstanding state tradition that there is no situation so bad that it can't be made worse, Paterson's office followed up by sliming Kennedy.
Despite the longstanding danger of a Portuguese attack, the situation of the Spanish force in Badajoz was dreadful.
Marjorie Wallace of the mental health charity SANE said: "This situation is a result of the longstanding agenda to reduce the number of psychiatric beds, the most expensive element of care.
He refused to say much of anything about Mr. McAfee, other than to describe his residence as the site of "a longstanding, uncomfortable situation".
