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But she emphasized that the Group of 7 had a "longstanding set of rules" committing its members to float their currencies except during rare instances of market turbulence.

"There is a longstanding set of principles that guide the Justice Department in deciding whether to bring a criminal complaint versus a company, and one is cooperation," said Scott D. Michel, a lawyer who counsels wealthy clients at Caplin & Drysdale.

"There's a lot going on in the world and I have a longstanding set of relationships that go back not only to secretary and senator but first lady, and I think it's important to tend to those relationships," Mrs. Clinton said.

"What happened in the Roaring Nineties," Mr. Stiglitz writes, "was that a set of longstanding checks and balances -- a balance between Wall Street, Main Street (or High Street, as it is called in the United Kingdom), and labor; between Old Industry and New Technology, government and the market -- was upset, in some essential ways, by the new ascendancy of Finance".

But a longstanding policy of tolerance — essentially a set of instructions from the Justice Ministry to the police — means that licensed coffee shop operators are not prosecuted as long as they deal in limited quantities and keep hard drugs and minors out.

When dealing with a set of longstanding traditions of suspicious provenance and dubious wisdom, things are bound to get confusing.

Both come to office after their countries' relations deteriorated over a longstanding dispute over a set of islets.

Ms. Park came to office after South Korea's relations with Japan deteriorated over a longstanding dispute over a set of small islands.

With that decision, the SEC changed its longstanding practice of adhering to a single set of accounting standards in the U.S. The decision diminishes the standing of two previously powerful institutions: U.S. GAAP and the SEC itself.

He is a longstanding associate of Mr Ecclestone.

"She's a longstanding member of our community," Mr. Cruz said.