The court heard he had undergone psychiatric assessments since he was 17, had convictions for possessing weapons, and had a long-standing preoccupation with murder.
Martin Walser's Ohne einander developed the author's long-standing preoccupation with sexual rivalry and the struggle of each against all, combining these themes with a wicked attack on a prominent literary critic.
On the other hand, it is a deeply personal work, whose material reflects Adams's long-standing preoccupation with multiple systems of tuning, his fascination with slow-motion formal processes, his love of foggy masses of sound in which many events are unfolding at independent tempos.
There's an ongoing joke in China that both captures the long standing competitive nature between Beijing and Shanghai while tying it neatly with the country's number one preoccupation: pollution.
They're all friends of long standing.
He received a long standing ovation.
Settlement there is of long standing.
Wives of long standing shuddered in empathy.
Some routes are of long standing.
His party loyalism is of long standing.
This state influence is long standing however.
