The long-term trajectory of the U.S.-Israeli alliance is the greater concern.
It leaves in place significant short-term austerity while doing nothing to change the long-term trajectory of debt.
However, what drives a freight train through this short-term turbulence is a long-term trajectory of the increasing economic impact of our universities and graduates.
Christian Democracy, even if power machines such as the CDU keep winning elections for many years to come, is on a long-term trajectory of decline.
For days computer simulations of the long-term trajectory of the storm had been shifting a bit to the east day by day.
When it comes to significantly altering the long-term trajectory of spending and revenues, this budget is basically a holding operation that doesn't do much either way — a fact Jack Lew, the budget director, has come close to conceding.
Rees's counterpart at the Future of Life Institute, the M.I.T. physicist Max Tegmark, hosted a closed-door meeting in Puerto Rico, to try to make sense of the long-term trajectory of the research.
But we can't even begin to feel reassured about the long-term trajectory of surveillance in America, not when so much of our ordinary communications don't take place on the usual phone-record system at all.
Jeff Masters, a meteorologist who writes on the Weather Underground blog, said that the recent snows do not, by themselves, demonstrate anything about the long-term trajectory of the planet.
