Sentence examples for by a longstanding from inspiring English sources

The Foreign Office said Britain would abide by a longstanding policy not to make "substantive concessions to hostage takers".

But reaction in Europe was tempered by a longstanding perception that Mr. O'Neill commanded limited influence in Washington.

At the moment, auditors are supposedly kept honest by a longstanding system of self-regulation, in which big firms conduct "peer reviews" of each others' audit practices.

But the urgency of the message could be muted by a longstanding problem: official serving sizes for many packaged foods are just too small.

Housing values had been lifted by a longstanding government-backed home loans program, now called the Prêt à taux zéro plus.

These problems, compounded by a longstanding disregard for safety, have caused accidents in the past and could have been contributing factors in this one.

Advocates, including farm interest lobbyists and lawmakers with a long history of creating and protecting benefits, argue that the new program would save Washington money by replacing a longstanding one costing $5 billion a year, known as direct payments, that pays owners of farmland a set amount regardless of whether they have planted crops.

Marshall shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for proving that stomach ulcers are caused by the bacterium Helicobacter pylori rather than by stress, a longstanding and erroneous connection that formed the basis both of thinking on the subject and of the lucrative standard treatment.

The group is controlled by Yuri Kovalchuk, a longstanding friend of Putin who was sanctioned by the US earlier this year due to his closeness to the Russian president.

8 Both Krebs' review team and the ISG maintained these connections by including members of the Oxford and Silwood groups, by working closely with MAFF/Defra's own field ecologists, and by continuing a longstanding Silwood tradition of interdisciplinary, policy oriented, collaborative research (Gay 2013).

The measure would finance slightly more than half the benefits by repealing a longstanding tax break for exporters that has been declared illegal by the World Trade Organization.