Sentence examples for long constitutes from inspiring English sources

Even for an industry that survives on change, this sense that nothing lasts for long constitutes a radical shift, affecting moods and economies but also lives.

The system, composed by two platforms linked by a flexible tether a few hundreds of meters long, constitutes the building block of more complex tethered architectures utilised in proposed space interferometry missions.

Groundwater long constituted the water supply when agriculture accounted for most regional water use.

People of European ancestry have for long constituted the great majority of the population.

For example, Roman Catholic women over 45 long constituted an essential pillar of the German Christian Democrats.

Mass education, economic crisis and unfeeling government have long constituted a fertile soil for the cults of authoritarianism and violence.

But this four-legged plant-eating dinosaur had a neck 24 feet long, constituting more than half the creature's entire length to the tip of its tail.

The songs in Ms. Brussell's autobiographical show, "The Piano Bench of My Mind: Songs I've Been Sitting On for Far Too Long" constitute a seriocomic potpourri that ranges from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Joni Mitchell to Richard Fariña.

The fascination with violence runs from fiction to film to TV dramas and beyond; combat, rape, mutilation, kidnapping, and murder have long constituted basic building blocks for Korea's most talented filmmakers.

CAIRO — The Muslim Brotherhood, the outlawed Islamic group that has long constituted Egypt's main political opposition, said Tuesday that it would apply to become an official political party as soon as the necessary changes were made to the Egyptian Constitution.

People of European ancestry have long constituted the great majority of its residents, but the African American proportion of the population has steadily increased to about one-fourth of the total.