Sentence examples for long-standing demand from inspiring English sources

A long-standing demand of education reformers has been that it should be easier for schools to fire bad teachers.

So Israel may drop its objection to Egypt's long-standing demand to increase the size of its border force, which is limited by a mutual treaty.

The owners also stuck to their long-standing demand that within those contracts, the maximum year-to-year salary variance would be limited to 5 percent.

He fired the abducted officers and met a long-standing demand by various involved outsiders that he should consolidate the PA's 12 security forces into three.

This has been a long-standing demand of the candidates, who fear that otherwise they may get sucked into a never-ending tunnel.

Dropping our long-standing demand that the Afghan government be involved in any discussions with the Taliban means only: We are surrendering.

The furor has renewed long-standing demands for media regulation.

Both were long-standing demands of the international community.

His first task was to meet the long-standing demands in Parliament for a radical reform of the criminal laws.

Wednesday's finding fuelled long-standing demands from campaign groups and beekeeper organisations to restrictthe use of neonicotinoids.

They have dropped long-standing demands to change rules regarding free agency and salary arbitration – important concessions to the union, which wanted those rules to remain unchanged.