In the fall of 1998, Josh Patner and Bryan Bradley founded a fashion house based more or less on the idea that life is a mint julep and the urban professional woman had for too long refused to take a sip.
For the first time, there were no public debates, only public tears from the mayor who had for so long refused to observe the King holiday officially and who had turned Wallingford into a magnet for controversy.
Perhaps what Europe needs most today is not a dialogue with other civilisations, but a true dialogue with itself, with those facets of itself that it has for too long refused to recognise, that even today prevent it from fully benefiting from the richness of its constituent religious and philosophical traditions.
The Palestinians have long refused to negotiate with Israel without a halt in settlement construction.
Re "N.F.L. to Fine Three Players for Hits to Head," Oct. 20: American football players are groomed to be hard hitting, and the N.F.L. has long refused to accept responsibility for the suffering of its current and former players.
It's not quite the Surface Studio, but it's easy to see how the company is essentially using the second display as a surrogate for touchscreens — something it has long refused to include in its line of computers.
They were allegedly sent by her estranged husband — a man she was forced to marry; a man who had long refused her requests for a divorce.
As he puts it, Matsushita has long "refused to make promises we can't keep".
The U.S. has long refused to take a position on the sometimes overlapping claims.
Mr Duncan Smith favours tax breaks for married couples, something that Labour has long refused to endorse.It is true that marriage is a declining institution.
Anderson has long refused to cooperate with federal authorities, and went to jail for refusing to testify about Bonds before a grand jury.
