Sentence examples similar to long standing preference from inspiring English sources

So much for resting up in the weeks before major championships – a long-standing preference that might now be abandoned.

However, it is Ings' long-standing preference to join Liverpool where he has been a long-term target for manager Brendan Rodgers.

Yesterday in a plenary session, Nordhaus repeated his long-standing preference for a carbon tax, which sets a price for carbon emissions, not an emissions goal.

Jacob has a long-standing preference for Internet portals and for years has valiantly owned Yahoo, which he considered a kind of value version of the larger and faster-growing Google.

Though it has been criticised over the years for ignoring films about contemporary racial injustice – most notably by choosing to honour Driving Miss Daisy with Best Picture in 1989 while not nominating Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing for the top prize – that might speak to the Oscar voting body's long-standing preference for safe entertainment over provocation.

Despite a long-standing preference for autarky, China briefly opened up under the Song and Mongol Yuan dynasties.

China has an enormous imbalance in the sex-ratio of its population, because of a long-standing preference for boys that is exacerbated by the birth-limitation policies.

In the absence of good evidence for the benefits of early surgery or of the harm of deferring surgery, Heino Meyer-Bahlburg, a proponent of the current standard of care, claims that evidence of opinions gathered from affected individuals themselves bolsters physicians' long-standing preference for early surgery.

This state influence is long standing however.

*LSIs, Long standing illnesses.

As such, he reinforced the long-standing Roman preference for ancient customs and Imperial opposition to independent societies.