Sentence examples for long-standing programme from inspiring English sources

In July 1995, they voted to end the long-standing programme of giving preferences to blacks and other minorities (and to women) who wished to enrol in the state's sprawling university system, which covers nine campuses.

For example, based on a long-standing programme of NEXUS research on families and tobacco use, NEXUS pilot-tested, produced, and disseminated a resource to help co-habiting couples reduce or stop smoking in conjunction with government health agencies, local addictions research centres, pregnancy outreach programmes, and other organisations.

No-strings cash handouts are catching on quickly in Africa: 37 countries had them in 2013, up from 21 just three years earlier.Many long-standing programmes are, like India's, plagued with waste and corruption.

Conditional cash transfers gained popularity in South America where long-standing programmes have demonstrated their success through significant improvements in access to education, food security, child health and growth [ 2- 6].

The unique combinations of intra-centre skills and expertise at NEXUS undoubtedly enabled the expansion of lone-grant projects into long-standing programmes of research and the rapid mobilisation of centre personnel to develop new investigations in response to critical emergent research areas, and to respond to targeted or catalyst research funding opportunities.

"We have a long-standing embed programme with allies but there are currently no pilots taking part in this region.

Unlike all his rivals, the senator is vowing to phase out a long-standing federal programme requiring the blending of ethanol in petrol in the United States.

The BBC said in a statement on Friday: "This guidance is old, out of date and does not reflect the BBC's long-standing position that programme makers have freedom to exercise their editorial judgement with the editorial policy team available to provide advice around sensitive issues on a case-by-case basis.

No problem and the sport, to its credit, has fought hard to counter the "Pimm's and no chins" image - although you really do have to be over 6ft 5in and the upper classes have an unfair bio-dynamic advantage because of a long-standing selective breeding programme.

The US stated in 2002 that Syria had a "long-standing chemical warfare programme", which was first developed in the 1970s.

The two biggest arms-buyers in the Gulf, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, have long-standing, sophisticated offset programmes.