But financial and industry analysts, who had long awaited the news, seemed puzzled by the appointment.
Mr. Hollande, in his victory speech, said it was a moment many people had long awaited, and he acknowledged the challenges ahead.
After months of prayer (and, I admit, a little bit of stress), I finally received the piece of paper I had long awaited: my financial award letter from John Brown University.
Toward the end of his life, he told one confidant that he had long awaited an epiphany that would enable him to see the world in a new light, but that it never came.
Nonetheless, neo-Ottomanism increased support for Erdoğan, not only in Turkey but also, for a time, in the Western press, which had long awaited an attractive model of a "Muslim democracy".
Representative Jesse Jackson Jr., who had long awaited the mayor's departure, has been damaged, perhaps permanently, by Fitzgerald's allegations that he was party to an arrangement to trade $1 million in campaign donations to Rod Blagojevich for Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat.
"Schindler's Factory has long awaited proper attention," she said.
Has Glass entered the late-period renaissance that his admirers have long awaited?
ENGLAND'S system of care for the elderly has long awaited an overhaul.
"The historic moment we have long awaited is arriving," Mr. Hu said in a speech at the luncheon.
Having long awaited Rivette's film, I wish I could report that it's a nearly lost and newly rediscovered masterwork.
