Sentence examples similar to long standing advantage from inspiring English sources

One recent poll showed that the Republicans' long-standing advantage as the party people trust to protect America had dwindled to nothing.

Since the late 1980s Arabic has been the primary language of instruction in schools throughout the country, slowly ending a long-standing advantage formerly held by the French-schooled populations of the Sénégal River valley.

An opinion piece in the Boston Globe by Edward Glaeser, an economics professor at Harvard, was scarcely more muted, concluding bluntly: "Dumping stoves into the developing world isn't going to alter the long-standing advantages of traditional methods".

One of the long-standing advantages Facebook has had over MySpace is its clean, structured appearance – Facebook allows a small degree of customization, but users always know where to look when they want to find a member's bio or their list of friends, which isn't always the case on MySpace.

In the 1980's, he said, the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, accused anti-China forces "in a certain nation" of using an innocuous position paper that was meant to be a "comprehensive and detailed exposition of China's long standing policy" to their political advantage.

He received a long standing ovation.

Settlement there is of long standing.

Wives of long standing shuddered in empathy.

They're all friends of long standing.

This state influence is long standing however.

This confirms a long standing expectation.