"Unlike the new folks, people who have lived here a long time understand the relationship between farmland and food," Ms. Waters said.
"Most property tax reform groups that have been studying the issue for a long time understand that a tax cap is smoke and mirrors," said Susan Zimet, 56, an Ulster County legislator and a former New Paltz town supervisor.
"Those of us who have been in this business for a long time understand that you ratchet things one way or the other a little bit at a time.
Those who have lived in the area a long time understand the need for the sirens and are even comforted by the sound, knowing help is on the way.
He had an explanation that might be called Gingrichian exceptionalism: Philosophically, in a way that many of you who've known me for a long time understand, I am very different than normal politicians, and normal consultants found that very hard to deal with.
Clemas works one on one to help people who may have been with one company for a long time understand the job market and analyse their skills.
"Those of us who have been working in this field for a very long time understand that this is not uncommon, this happens every day," she says.
"VCs, especially people who've been in the business a long time, understand them," says attorney Barry Kramer, who authored the Fenwick & West report and more recently wrote on Medium about pay-to-play provisions.
But since a long time, Harper understood that he can't apply his human rights vision to China.
It's a very simple book to read, but it takes a long time to understand what it's really saying, so I read just a single passage a day.
