Sentence examples for long afforded from inspiring English sources

The Olympics-induced state of exception has long afforded government authorities enormous leeway to break norms and bend laws.

"This decision is yet another assault on women's constitutional rights and the protections long afforded to women's health," Toti said.

Congressional caucuses have long afforded the legislators a way to form influential alliances and to gain easy access to an important commodity on Capitol Hill: information.

"The Tonight Show" has long afforded sponsors a chance to do that, dating to the days when hosts like Johnny Carson, Steve Allen and Jack Paar delivered commercials for products like Alpo dog food and Polaroid cameras.

ICM has long afforded a weight to each age bracket 18-244, 25-34 and so on) to match the group's size in the census but is now concerned that the individual respondents in each bracket may not be representative of that group.

As Michael Hiltzik wrote in the Los Angeles Times, "From the employers' standpoint, the two-tier system offers the added dividend of weakening the union by driving a wedge into worker solidarity". The better-off tier, either all current workers at the time of contract negotiation or a subset of the more senior workers, retains the benefits the company has long afforded them.

But few experts here believe that Denmark can long afford the current perks.

No business or private citizen can long afford a mandatory $10,000 fine per count.

The final lesson is that no great nation can long afford to be sundered by a memory".

The people of our states can no long afford to wait while politicians in Washington play games.

Defense Department officials say President Vladimir V. Putin cannot long afford to keep his conventional forces at current levels, nor his strategic forces.