Sentence examples similar to long standing mistake from inspiring English sources

Best Foreign-Language Film The Academy makes the annual and long-standing mistake of basing its selections solely on the nominations, one per country, of an official committee from each country.

Setting "energy independence" as an overriding policy goal is a policy mistake of long standing in Washington.

Unmentioned in the column: our long-standing national mistake of countenancing widespread contempt for our teachers, whom too many of us define as bumbling, automaton implementers of rote policy rather than as cherished, respected, imagination-exercising professionals entrusted with what's most precious — namely, our kids.

It is also his first masterpiece; nobody could mistake it for entertainment, but the director could easily be mistaken for a tragedian of long standing, so expert is his pacing of the horrors.

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 confirms a long standing expectation.

Some routes are of long standing.

This state influence is long standing however.