Sentence examples for a longstanding situation from inspiring English sources

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.

Therefore it is not clear whether participants' responses reflect a longstanding situation or just a brief, temporary reaction.

This is, of course, a longstanding position.

This was amended to more accurately reflect Wollaston's view that this "subsidy" is a current and longstanding situation that ministers need to address.

He refused to say much of anything about Mr. McAfee, other than to describe his residence as the site of "a longstanding, uncomfortable situation".

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.

Wollaston, who is a GP, has also asked the health secretary to clarify what ministers intend to do to address the longstanding situation that people who pay for their own care are also subsidising those whose costs are inadequately met by local authorities.

But it is also incumbent on us, when we do come across a problem with a longstanding customer, to trust their account of the situation and do whatever we can to put the situation right".

NATO, it said, has a "longstanding commitment to render assistance in emergency situations at sea".

But one American executive with a longstanding corporate relationship with the family added: "Their situation is catastrophic from a business point of view.

The judge, Helen E. Freedman of State Supreme Court in Manhattan, who has overseen the city's family shelter system under a longstanding court decree, ordered the city to remedy the situation.