Sentence examples for establishment for years from inspiring English sources

Conventions have been a tug-of-war between the media and the party establishment for years.

In addition to creating a constitution, Mr. Barak has proposed a laundry list of changes, most of which have been blocked by the religious establishment for years.

When Mr. Florio and the Democratic-dominated Legislature pushed through a $2.8 billion tax package in 1990, there was a populist backlash that upended the state's political establishment for years.

The owners, Khalid Pitts and Diane Gross, are friends of Barack (well, Mr. Pitts is director of political accountability with the Service Employees International Union, which endorsed Mr. Obama, and Ms. Gross has worked with the Democratic political establishment for years).

"We waited for ANVUR's establishment for years, and we are keen on being evaluated," says Bignami. "Now, do they want to throw everything ANVUR is doing out of the window?" Heads of the affected institutes received no prior warning but are hoping to change Profumo's mind at a meeting scheduled for Thursday.

On October 20, 2000, after tricking the U.S. intelligence establishment for years, Ali Mohamed stood in handcuffs, leg irons, and a blue prison jumpsuit before Judge Leonard B. Sand in a Federal District courtroom in Lower Manhattan.

But this is a matter of convenience, not principle -- far from being a true believer, Cruz sought establishment support for years, and his villainization of them now is a cold eyed tactic.

She approached her boss at the American University of Nigeria in Yola, Margee Ensign, an energetic, cheerful woman who has run the establishment for six years.

They have been contentious inside the British establishment for 70 years, never properly scrutinised because opposition to them was usually based on moral and not practical grounds.

His plea bargain, if confirmed, would be the first from a head of Brazil's biggest engineering groups, which have been at the centre of the Petrobras investigation rattling the country's political establishment for two years.

Though he has served at the heart of the establishment for many years, he was plainly the most liberal of the eventual runners, though all of them had been vetted by the Council of Guardians, a clutch of clerics and lawyers, to ensure their fidelity to the tenets of the Islamic revolution of 1979.