"Our objective," it continued, "has always been and remains to take whatever action is appropriate to make sure our great-aunt is well cared for, while at the same time respecting her long standing desire for privacy to the greatest extent possible".
Standing desires are desires one has that are not playing any role in one's psyche at the moment.
All this is to underscore that technology to this point, had not caught up with long-standing desires of the human imagination.
There is a long-standing desire among the people to unite the two Ossetias.
He depicted the 1917 Bolshevik revolution as completing Russia's long-standing desire to modernise.
Upon assuming the partriarchate, he expressed his long-standing desire for increased dialogue to end the church's millennium-old rift with the Roman Catholic Church.
He has expressed a long-standing desire to add a second Nextel Cup race at Las Vegas, one of the six other tracks he owns.
Many Kashmiris will be angry that their long-standing desire for an autonomous state is being ignored for the sake of US realpolitik.
Later, frustrated by the exploitation of several female friends by the legal system, she decided to fulfill a long-standing desire to become a lawyer even though it had been 30 years since she attended college.
Which is why some News Corporation shareholders suspect that they are just excuses, and that Mr Murdoch has put his long-standing desire to own one of the world's great newspapers before any serious consideration of value for money.
When the anti-Communist general Lon Nol overthrew Prince Sihanouk in Cambodia in March 1970, Nixon acceded to the U.S. army's long-standing desire to destroy Communist sanctuaries inside that country.
