Sentence examples for long-standing plan from inspiring English sources

A long-standing plan to build a second international airport in Mumbai is on ice.

Their long-standing plan has been to use the next budget vehicle to pass tax reform.

The departure of Sky's long-standing "Plan B" for Grand Tours, Richie Porte, at the end of this season is another argument in his favour.

Under new ownership it will start on its long-standing plan to become a big producer of baby food, reckons Ildiko Szalai of Euromonitor International, a research firm.

According to the Georgians, Moscow had a long-standing plan to provoke the conflict and conducted an illegal invasion of Georgia and annexation of Georgian territory.

And a long-standing plan to harmonize the base on which corporate tax is levied in Europe is also a point of contention between Britain and Brussels.

Where to make the cuts is something military chiefs have started to argue about in public.On January 19th Sir Mark Stanhope, Britain's top admiral, defended long-standing plans to build two expensive new aircraft carriers.

This summer, the White House, pushed by the office of Vice-President Dick Cheney, requested that the Joint Chiefs of Staff redraw long-standing plans for a possible attack on Iran, according to former officials and government consultants.

This has raised fresh question-marks over the Pentagon's long-standing plans to build two or three new kinds of manned fighter aircraft, designed in part for dogfights over Europe.

George W. Bush coalesced around a strategy of first ousting the Taliban from Afghanistan and dismantling al-Qaeda, though others contemplated actions in Iraq, including long-standing plans for toppling Pres.

Lotz and his sister, Cecelia, had long-standing plans to attend a jam-band festival in western Michigan; their father, Jay, an event promoter, was travelling to the festival separately.