Sentence examples for long-standing pattern from inspiring English sources

But extreme-weather events in the South Pacific are part of a long-standing pattern.

"It's not just one piece of technology, but a long-standing pattern of anti-competitive behavior," Reed said.

There's a long-standing pattern of shrugging off the generation of feminists that came before you, embarrassed by what feels like their earnestness or their excessiveness.

Perhaps participants had many reasons for preferring Mr. Obama, but they followed the long-standing pattern of finding women less plausible military commanders than men.

The claims follow a long-standing pattern of allegations made in reports by the commission, whose purpose is to investigate the national security implications of the US's trade with China.

To Chomsky, the failure of coverage was due not merely to moral laziness, or to lack of interest in a small place far away; it was part of a long-standing pattern.

Population pressures, soaring house prices and gentrification continue to change long-standing patterns of behaviour.

Ms. Bloemink's last curatorial effort here, "Re/Righting History: Counternarratives by Contemporary African-American Artists," questioned long-standing patterns of oppression against African-Americans by confronting our nation's shameful past.

In August 2010 Kenyan voters passed a referendum on the adoption of a new constitution, one rewritten to deactivate the country's long-standing patterns of political tension and corruption.

Upon first glance, Fig. 7 confirms the persistence of long-standing patterns in individual countries.

Local governments and metropolitan planning authorities in the United States are increasingly under pressure to reverse long-standing patterns of urban sprawl and pursue instead what is termed "compact development".