Sentence examples for has long competed from inspiring English sources

The trust has long competed with the corporation as a form of business organization.

Mr. Chalabi's party, the Iraqi National Congress, has long competed bitterly with the Iraqi National Accord for backing from the American government, which helps explain the clash between the two over the new service.

And now, after an election completed on Sunday, the university, which has long competed with the likes of Harvard, Yale and the California Institute of Technology for the No. 1 spot in ratings for the world's top academic institution, will have to wait a little longer.

L. L. Bean, which has long competed with Lands' End in some apparel categories, has sold clothing through size 18 for decades, said a spokeswoman, Mary Rose MacKinnon, and began selling size 20 and larger, up to size 26, in 1999.

If there is a key to the convergence among these authors, it lies, first of all, in their insistence on the bodily and communal character of resurrection, a view that has long competed with a Hellenistic philosophical and especially Platonic dualism, in which an individual disembodied intellect or spirit could be saved from its corruptible and corrupting body.

But as the onetime PC king's business has soured, the company has been signaling that it intends to make peace with the middlemen it has long competed against.

The Arabs are nomads who have long competed for land with black African farmers, also Muslim.

Their art museums have long competed for some of the world's great paintings.

Its secular government and religious oversight branches have long competed for power.

All the major powers recognize Beijing, but the two sides have long competed for the allegiances of smaller countries, using promises of aid.

Free food on tap is a fundamental part of the tech workplace, and Bay Area companies have long competed over the breadth of their snack offering.