"long standing consensus" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a widely held agreement or opinion that has been in place for a significant amount of time. Example: "There is a long standing consensus among the members of the committee that the proposed policy changes are necessary for the company's success."
Whatever others may have thought of the novels of Theodor Fontane — and the long-standing consensus is that they are, as one critic has noted, "the most completely achieved of any written between Goethe and Thomas Mann Fontaneane himself clearly thought that they were pretty unexciting.
Despite a long-standing consensus for a strong genetic contribution, the pace of discovery compared to other disorders of similar prevalence has been slow, due in part to a paucity of studies and both clinical heterogeneity and a complex genetic architecture.
Recently, two prominent California Republicans, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher and Rep. Tom McClintock, have taken the lead in helping reverse the long-standing consensus between both parties that marijuana, and other drugs, should remain illegal.
How or why these 'deterministic mechanisms' evolved is unknown, but a long-standing consensus is that they are required to safeguard the unique properties of germ cells (Blackler, 1970; Seydoux and Braun, 2006).
Phylogenetic relationships within Phocidae reflect the more-or-less long-standing consensus picture for this group (see [ 49]), with the true seals being divided into the northern Phocinae and southern Monachinae.
Despite long-standing consensus supporting minimal intervention and non-operative preventives for caries management in dental practice [ 1], a prevention-oriented strategy is far from reaching universal adoption: for example, many dentists favor restoration placement over non-operative therapy for enamel-confined lesions [ 2– 4].
Changes in the mechanical axis and in the orientation of the femoral and tibial component were assessed by comparison with the 2-year follow-up radiographs (including long standing radiographs) by 2 surgeons in consensus.
Desmond Hudson, chief executive of the Law Society, said: "If the government persists with these proposals it would represent a sharp break from the long-standing bipartisan consensus that effective access to justice is essential to underpin the rule of law".
Moreover, the end of the Cold War shattered the long-standing bipartisan consensus on foreign policy and revived tensions between the executive and legislative branches over the extent of executive war-making power.
Elfyn Llwyd, Plaid Cymru MP and member of the House of Commons justice committee, quoted Des Hudson of the Law Society, saying the proposals "would represent a sharp break with the long-standing bipartisan consensus that effective access to justice is essential to underpin the rule of law.
The long-standing medical consensus is that this is accomplished by action of the ciliary muscle, a muscle within the eye, which adjusts the curvature of the eye's crystalline lens.
