Sentence examples for a longtime state from inspiring English sources

Those licenses, issued from 1985 to 2000 by a longtime state employee, were revoked.

Egypt's military junta showed some political sense when it announced the easing of a longtime state of emergency law.

Mr. Pearson had been a longtime state trooper in the area and was a former Jasper volunteer fire chief.

Mr. Curry, a longtime state banking regulator in Massachusetts, has served for the last seven years as one of the five directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

"He's No. 1 in the state without a doubt — I don't think anybody disputes that," Ray Lesniak, a longtime state senator from Elizabeth, in North Jersey, said.

Mr. Risch, a longtime state senator first elected lieutenant governor in 2002, served as interim governor for seven months in 2006 after President Bush named Gov.

Jack Schaefer, a former longtime state senator from McHenry County, said he was organizing a fund-raiser for Mr. Brady in the northwest suburbs and noted that potential donors in his region were anxious to clean house in Springfield.

Nixon, a former longtime state attorney general seeking his second term as governor, has positioned himself as a moderate in the Republican-trending state in his bid for a second term.

As a longtime State Department official, Mr. John has had several tours abroad, in South Korea, Tanzania and Vietnam, said his brother, Robert John, a lawyer in Evanston, Ill.

"Unity is again being driven by tactical considerations, not by a sincere desire to unify ranks," Aaron David Miller, a longtime State Department employee who is now vice president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, wrote in a commentary posted Wednesday on foreignpolicy.com.com

2. Shutting Out State In the spring of 2002, as support for a war to oust Saddam Hussein took root within the Bush administration, the State Department began to gather information and draw up its own set of plans for postwar Iraq under the leadership of Thomas Warrick, a longtime State Department official who was then special adviser to the department's Office of Northern Gulf Affairs.