Sentence examples for left for decades from inspiring English sources

This amounts to a revolution compared with the snail's trail of murkiness the ethics panel left for decades.

Tony Benn – the lodestar for the Labour left for decades, orator, campaigner, diarist and grandfather – has died aged 88 after a long illness, his family has announced.

There have been intellectual discussions between the church and the left for decades...the new thing is that many ordinary believers and voters are opting for the left politically and that should create a fertile ground for debate.

Mr. Campos's unwavering commitment to free market principles and his conviction that Brazil's lack of development stemmed not from "imperialism" but its own policy errors made him a favorite target of the left for decades.

There's plenty to savor, including a magnificent supercharged 1937 Cord 812 SC Sportsman and a 1938 Mercedes Benz 320 N Speciale Kombination Roadster bought by a American serviceman from a Berlin used-car lot in 1946, then left for decades in an Orange, Conn., barn.

Ben Johnson, the weather-beaten, conscience-stricken henchman who alerts Alan Ladd to Jack Palance's ignoble intentions in the 1953 classic Shane, had been playing the third ornery old cowpoke from the left for decades before he got a chance to shine in The Last Picture Show, which won him a best supporting actor Oscar in 1971.

And once they move in, many do not leave for decades.

Some countries in Europe have offered paid maternity leave for decades.

The war in Kosovo is about who will rule a place Serbs consider their cultural heartland, but which they have been leaving for decades, mostly for economic reasons.

Though a steady trickle had been leaving for decades, the exodus became a flood after the American invasion in 2003, when radical Islamists unleashed a sectarian onslaught against Shia Muslims, Christians and others.

This next phase of development is intended to persuade two groups to stay on Staten Island: the 1.5 million tourists who arrive by ferry each year only to turn around and immediately return to Manhattan, and young Staten Islanders, who have been leaving for decades.