Sentence examples for long standing for from inspiring English sources

There is a practice of long standing for belligerents, at the outbreak of war, to enact prize law through statutory legislation; such enactments are presumed to be declaratory of international law but are, in any event, binding on the courts.

4. Chronic complaint: Do you suffer from any long standing (for at least one year) limiting somatic or psychiatric illness, disease or disability?

Cairo - 27 May 2001 Mrs. Mubarak, Secretary-General Salim Salim, Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates, Dear Children: On behalf of the United Nations Children's Fund, let me begin by thanking the Government of Egypt, a UNICEF partner of long standing, for its hospitality and hard work in hosting this crucially important Conference.

Mortuaries have a long standing reputation for being dark, creepy places populated by ghoulish individuals.

Stress is a long standing challenge for the applications of silicon (Si) anodes in lithium (Li) ion batteries.

This country has had long standing support for individual privacy and an aversion to broad searches.

I got in the long, standing line for my bus with all the other damned souls.

The projects proposed by these teams offer represent exciting new approaches to long standing challenges for the early childhood field.

A 56-year old Asian woman presented with long standing thyrotoxicosis for 23 years.

In XXXXXXXXXXXX's view, the French leader's ties with Ben Ali were too long-standing for the French president to adopt a new approach.

She is too smart, and the discussions of the level of crime among foreigners are too long-standing, for her not to have reckoned that something like this might happen.