Sentence examples for long-standing image from inspiring English sources

But in the past few decades, it has been trying to modify its long-standing image as "the place where fun goes to die".

This has all contributed to reshaping the long-standing image of  Poland as a massive Jewish graveyard, the site of all the Nazi extermination camps.

"Certainly a video game doesn't square with Augusta's long-standing image of stuffiness and propriety," said Alan Shipnuck, a Sports Illustrated writer and author of "The Battle for Augusta National".

One of the bizarre side-products of the titanic currency fluctuations of late is that Reykjavik is now amazingly cheap to holiday makers, in direct opposition to its long-standing image as a painfully expensive place to have fun.

All told, opera lovers are taking to the Web so readily that I may even have to change my long-standing image of them, and of Wagnerians in particular.

The airport raid, carried out Tuesday by men wielding metal rods who pushed past riot police officers, was the climax of three years of intermittent protests that have tarnished Thailand's long-standing image as a freewheeling but stable nation.

Late last year the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) launched a five year strategy, Chemical Engineering Matters, which recognised the need for a more diverse profession and to break the long-standing stereotypical image of engineering.

It's also a shift from America's long-standing cultural image of ever-changing frontiers, dating to the westward migration of the 1800s and more recently in the spreading out of whites, blacks and Hispanics in the Sun Belt's housing boom.

Other colleagues reported it being an issue of fury – "angrier than I've ever seen him," to quote one long-standing employee – rather than the image Phelan had portrayed of a disconsolate manager with no appetite to share his misery.

The company also seems to be struggling with its image and long-standing customer service issues over.

The authors thank Jeff Price (Vala Sciences, www.valasciences.com) and Tim Moran (www.accelrys.com) for long-standing high throughput microscopy and image analysis support, and excellent technical support from Maureen G. Mancini.