The phrase "a longstanding practice of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a custom or habit that has been in place for a significant period of time.
Example: "The organization has a longstanding practice of conducting annual reviews to assess employee performance."
Alternatives: "an established tradition of" or "a time-honored custom of".
Separately, primaries for Congressional and state legislative races are scheduled for Sept. 11, in keeping with a longstanding practice of holding those elections on the first Tuesday after the second Monday of September.
It has a longstanding practice of not commenting on individual cases.
Israeli leaders have a longstanding practice of meeting the candidates from both parties.
We also, however, have a longstanding practice of not discussing work that has not yet been published".
The reforms are intended to reverse a longstanding practice of segregating special education students in their own classrooms and schools.
Bank of America values the independence of its research and has a longstanding practice of protecting that independence".
Dr. Dougherty's efforts included emphasizing a longstanding practice that none of the university's deans could have any contact with board members — which Dr. Pearson told Mr. Guter he had run afoul of when he sent postcards to the Duquesne community announcing a law professor's new book, further straining his relationship with Dr. Dougherty.
As an index of his esteem for Ms. Linsell, whom he married in 1970, Mr. Fiorentino had a longstanding practice, at social functions, of squiring her into the best possible light.
The Assembly's staff never began a formal inquiry, and the matter was not referred to the Assembly's ethics committee, in keeping with a longstanding practice in the chamber of shielding members from embarrassment.
Those include a penny-per-pound premium paid by participating retailers and passed on to workers as a line item bonus on their weekly paychecks, the elimination of a longstanding practice known as "cupping" that resulted in up to 10percentt of a worker's labor going unpaid, and piece rate increases after three decades of stagnant rates.
Ms. Brewer's order reversed a longstanding practice by the state's Transportation Department of giving driver's licenses to beneficiaries of deferred-deportation action, like asylum seekers, by accepting their work permits as proof of their authorized presence.
