Sentence examples for been a longstanding issue from inspiring English sources
The membership's makeup has been a longstanding issue.
"Conflicts of interest have been a longstanding issue in financial advice," it said.
Mr. Maliki created the brigades in 2008, and they have been a longstanding issue with Sunnis and others who have accused Mr. Maliki, a Shiite, of using the security forces as his personal militia.
Under these arrangements, councils have to agree to host students to ensure they get the right experience, in stark contrast to England where a shortage of placements has been a longstanding issue.
Dr. Alfred Berg, chairman of the department of family medicine at the University of Washington and the former chairman of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which issues medical practice guidelines, said Pap tests in women without a cervix had been "a longstanding issue".
The evolution creationism controversy has been a longstanding issue ever since the publication of Darwin's seminal work, On the Origin of Species, in 1859 (Moore et al. 2009).
Chickens are a longstanding issue in Sino-American trade relations.
For many women living in a society where they are bombarded with images of the young and the thin, body-image problems are a longstanding issue.
This is a longstanding issue that was also emphasized in "The Climate Divide," our 2007 special report in The Times on the outsize vulnerability to climate change in places like sub-Saharan Africa.
He said that a delay in notifying the police was a "longstanding issue with Shomrim" and that traditionally, "certain members of the community have confidence in Shomrim and go to them first".
