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"long-standing request" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a request or demand that has been made for a significant period of time, indicating that it has not yet been fulfilled or addressed. Here are a few examples: - "Despite numerous attempts, the company has yet to address our long-standing request for better working conditions." - "The community has been making a long-standing request for the city council to install speed bumps on this road." - "After years of silence, the government has finally acknowledged our long-standing request for equal rights and representation." - "The artist fulfilled a long-standing request from fans by performing their hit song at the concert."
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He finally made good on a long-standing request that previously been rebuffed — a USO tour of Vietnam.
There had been a long-standing request for him to go on the show, and Mourinho finally felt like fulfilling it when he had a few points to get off his chest after the Burnley game at Stamford Bridge.
There was no mention in the agreement of a long-standing request by the IAEA to inspect Iran's Parchin military complex, where U.S. officials think Iranian scientists carried out secret research on nuclear weapons components in the past decade.
Although a solution to this problem has been a long-standing request from many composers, it remains relatively unexplored because of its high complexity, requiring knowledge and understanding of both mathematical formalization and musical writing.
The United States would grant Russia's long-standing request to carry out joint operations against Syrian rebels deemed to be terrorists, in exchange for another Kremlin promise to restrain bombing by the regime of Bashar al-Assad in some parts of the country.
Moscow has refused a long-standing request from the UK to extradite the prime suspect in the case, Andrei Lugovoi.
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But long-standing requests for inspections have largely been ignored.
Commission spokesman Al Felzenberg said no new requests for information have been sent, but the panel has long-standing requests for documents.
There are long-standing requests the Chinese have made of the United States: fewer restrictions on technology exports from the United States to China, for example, or treating China as a market economy (thereby limiting dumping tariffs, a particularly big deal for steel).
When faced with that com mitment and its implications for American combat power in Indochina a year from now, the Joint Chiefs of Staff appear to have urgently demanded yet another review of their long standing request to strike into Cambodia.
Accompanied by World Bank Executive Directors from Finland, Switzerland, Netherlands and Chile, as well as the Bank's Chief Economist and a cameo appearance from U2's Bono, the President reported on the long standing requests he has received on Bank activities related to SOGIE.
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