Sentence examples for has long sat from inspiring English sources

DITZINGEN, GERMANY — Germany has long sat at the center of the European economy, but Europe is no longer as central to Germany as it used to be.

The IMF has long sat on a pot of gold: 3,217 tonnes of it, the third-biggest official hoard in the world.

He has long sat on a number of committees at the Met, though he is better known as the one-time chairman of the Whitney Museum of American Art.

The first person I speak to is 39-year-old Jeremy Shapiro of the Brookings Institution, the influential US think-tank once placed on Richard Nixon's list of sworn enemies, but that has long sat in the non-partisan centre.

Mr Uribe would have the potential, should he wish, to turn himself into an elected autocrat, along the lines of Hugo Chávez next door in Venezuela or, in the 1990s, Alberto Fujimori in Peru.Colombia's legalism has long sat awkwardly with its lawlessness.

WHILE much of the land along the 18-mile Hudson River shoreline has sprouted housing in the last few years, a 10-acre slice of waterfront in this Hudson County township has long sat dormant except for a stand of cattails that swayed to the river breezes.

The Indian and Pakistani authorities have long sat on reports into allegations of match-fixing that involved their players.

One showed a destroyed Shiite shrine, which had long sat in the ancient city of Sinjar in northwestern Iraq.

Food security advisers have long sat under a humanitarian umbrella, with international development NGOs using them to assess food needs in crisis situations.

The search for what unites humans in virtue was an ambitious effort to integrate psychology with those fields that have long sat alongside it: ethics, religion, philosophy.

At the same time, many of the families who have owned properties here for generations have been selling to a new crop of builders, who are aggressively developing sites that have long sat vacant or underused.