Sentence examples for long-standing scheme from inspiring English sources

Here's an example of the madness in south-west London, where there's a long-standing scheme to close some hospital units and send patients to fewer specialist centres.

But Peter Mandelson, the Northern Ireland secretary, decided to extend parole to all convicted terrorists, not just those eligible for the long-standing scheme.

Budget constraints are pushing Congress in the opposite direction: trade-adjustment assistance, a long-standing scheme to help those deemed to have lost their jobs to globalisation, expired recently.

Until now, the European Union has bought most of the Caribbean's sugar at two to three times the world price.Under a long-standing scheme, 18 former British and French colonies in Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific (dubbed ACP countries) export a fixed quota of sugar to the EU each year at the same price per tonne as Europe pays its own sugar growers.

High leverage was a long-standing strategy.

Mr. Madoff is in jail and awaiting sentencing after admitting he ran a long-standing Ponzi scheme.

Rob Greig, chief executive, National Development Team for Inclusion: "I know there has been comparison with the NHS where there is a long-standing graduate scheme.

Many of those still behind bars, including several murderers, had spent part of their sentence working at the governor's mansion as part of a long-standing rehabilitation scheme.

In this respect, two long-standing hypotheses stand out.

Apart from the difficulties of implementation (which nobody denied), the apparent reason for rejecting this scheme was the long-standing governmental passion for A-levels since the days of Kenneth Baker, repeatedly designated 'the gold standard' of our educational system.

In addition, Chisholm attempts to apply his conceptual scheme to some other long-standing puzzles in ethics.