Nonetheless, the Austro-Hungarian monarchy recognized that something had to be done, and decided to go after the Serbians, hard; the Germans, allies of long standing, offered to hold the Austrians' coat while they did it.
Billionaire Warren Buffett has a long-standing offer to award any of his employees who comes up with a perfect bracket a million dollars a year for life.
Bowen said if Hockey needed additional information about the opposition's policy then he should "take up Labor's long-standing offer for a detailed briefing".
The dean reiterated a long-standing offer for Obama to take a tenure-track position, mentioning that it would require him to publish legal scholarship.
I first met him in 1953, and in 1969 accepted his long-standing offer to join him.This was the year I told myself that I must start doing some Serious Theatre before it was too late.
Even after he had turned 90, and long retired from banking, Hodge was still hoping that his long-standing offer of £3m towards a new St David's cathedral would be accepted.
Argued a long-standing offer by New Zealand to resettle 150 refugees a year from Australia's offshore detention centres would create an incentive for people smugglers to resume business and would not be accepted.
Morrison raised the hopes of asylum seekers and their advocates when he re-floated the idea of the Australian government accepting New Zealand's long-standing offer to accept 150 asylum seekers from Nauru last month, following internal lobbying within his party room.
While his predecessor, Hamid Karzai, was quick to blame Pakistan for incidents in Afghanistan, Ghani has taken the view that stability in Afghanistan requires cooperation rather than confrontation with Pakistan, and he recently accepted Pakistan's long-standing offer to help train Afghanistan's military.
"When they do that, then they start thinking about, 'Well, maybe I've had my traditional phase of my career, now I'd like to do something different.' " After an intensive period of testing and personal assessment that confirmed Mr. Lukianuk's strengths and interests, he took up the headmaster of Portsmouth Christian on a long-standing offer to teach an introductory law class.
But the Coalition appears to be ruling out options with at least some chance of success, such as resettling refugees in a third country from where they could apply to come to Australia after a period of time, or New Zealand's long-standing offer to take some refugees, apparently because a solution cannot even be contemplated if there's a risk even one more boat might come.
