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Rather, Minoli wrote, his office has a "long-standing practice" of referring such inquiries to the EPA inspector general.

His panel's report, presented largely without redactions, was an exception to a long-standing practice of overclassifying national security information.

"It has been a long-standing practice of all Australian airlines to charge a separate booking and service fee.

Democratic senators, echoed by the Obama administration, accuse Mr. Mica of violating a long-standing practice of not adding policy changes to FAA extensions.

It is a long-standing practice of intelligence operatives to try to develop a source by first offering the target money for innocuous research or writing.

New Jersey and other states have a long-standing practice of handing out "walking around money," a few bucks to cover transportation and lunch for campaign workers on election day.

There is a long-standing practice to write transliterations of the runes into Latin characters with boldface and transcribe the text into a normalized form of the language with italic type.

Among other things a long standing practice of villages running "community admissions committees" to decide whether a person or family is permitted to move there was codified into law after the high court ruled that the committees were illegal.

"It is really a critique, not just of this case, but of a long-standing practice at the S.E.C., which effectively allowed corporate managers to buy immunity with their shareholders' money".

It continues a long-standing practice across a broad spectrum of colleges with important intercollegiate athletic programs.

Evidence for some legal practice or liturgical usage is no safe guide, for legislation on the subject by a king or a pope may merely be ratification of a long-standing practice.