Sentence examples for had long advance from inspiring English sources

He, and other senior staff of the paper, had long advance knowledge that I would plead guilty.

Jemaah Islamiyah has long advanced the idea of an Islamic state in Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia.

The author David Goodhart, for instance, has seized upon Putnam's "hunkering down thesis as vindication of the controversial position he holds has long advanced.

Mr. Harris said that Mr. Moran's comments started with "a grain of truth" -- that a number of Jews working in the administration's foreign policy team have long advanced the strategy of a pre-emptive war against Mr. Hussein.

"The great irony behind the claim that we should leave the EU because it is somehow anti-British is that we would be doing so just as the big principles we have long advanced - openness, competition, free trade, are enjoying greater continental consensus than ever".

"Liberal" politicians have long advanced their own power while serving the very monopolists they claim to oppose.

"Governor Cuomo has long led the fight to strengthen our democracy, and has long advanced reforms to make it easier to vote, including early voting and automatic and same-day voter registration," Hazel Crampton-Hays, a Cuomo spokeswoman, said in a statement.

Truth be told, though, the book was an amalgam of fragments of other books, for which he had long since paid advances.

Not to put too fine a point on it, he was suffering from a small cash-flow embarrassment: he had long ago spent the advance on his two-book deal with Simon & Schuster.

They saw the CCAAC as a legitimate part of a larger sustained childcare movement that had "long struggle[d]" to advance childcare policy at the national level.

Iraqi police had removed explosives and roadblocks that had long impeded a military advance.