Sentence examples for had long subsided from inspiring English sources

By the time Liu Xiaobo, an academic, was sentenced to 11 years in prison in December, dissident debate surrounding the reform manifesto he had issued a year earlier had long subsided.

(By now, any grumbling that the governor's austerity budget cut state aid to the Saranac Lake Central School District by 7 percent has long subsided).

After moments like this, even when the big laugh has long subsided, isolated individuals in the audience can still be heard chuckling uncontrollably to themselves.

The euphoria over taking Crimea has long subsided - to be replaced by a bleak mix of bloodshed in Ukraine and an economic downturn.

The moral outrage that nuclear weapons once fueled has long subsided and conversations now focus almost exclusively on their mind-boggling expense and the jobs that depend on their existence.

Can a judicial resolution lessen the agony of the victims and families, or does it serve only to revive pain that had long ago subsided?

And this doesn't seem to matter because by the time this was made the relic cult had long since subsided, and the reliquary itself, ornate and eye-catching, had become the object of devotional, and therefore aesthetic, concentration.

The water that flooded the raised ground-floor apartments at St Bernard has long since subsided.

Though the threat of actual conflict has long since subsided, an online battle waged by armies of Twitter bots rumbles on.

Any direct danger has long since subsided but the continued US presence remains an irritant to many Cubans.

The irritation at Mr. Christie has not subsided, several party leaders said, including one who huffed: "Elephants have long memories".