Sentence examples for longstanding actions from inspiring English sources

The surge in penalties is because of a number of factors, including the resolution of longstanding actions against drug makers and military contractors, as well as lawsuits brought against mortgage lenders after the financial crisis.

Creative events have been held across the country to mark the world-record-breaking 250 days without government, including a strip protest, beer demos, and the continuation of longstanding actions such as shaving and sex strikes.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, for example, is involved in longstanding class-action lawsuit against AT&T over the company's participation in a plan by the National Security Agency to monitor the private communications of consumers.

Many middle- and upper-caste Hindus resent longstanding affirmative action policies to help lower castes, and the special customary laws that allow India's Muslims to follow Islamic traditions when it comes to family legal matters like divorce and inheritance.

It is thus cause for celebration that the city agreed last week to settle a longstanding legal action and spend at least $700 million to upgrade these four plants, cutting their nitrogen output by nearly 60percentt by 2017.

Stephen Trigg, chair of the Reigate and Redhill and District Rail Users Association, a longstanding commuter action group, said the problems stemmed from "incompetence" at the Department for Transport rather than failings by Southern.

They dutifully praise important but minor accomplishments — the settlement of a longstanding class-action lawsuit by black farmers; increased funds for black colleges; the reduction (but not elimination) of the disparities in sentences for possession of crack and powder cocaine — while setting aside their critical acumen.

Officials from the city's law office are in settlement talks with plaintiffs on cases such as one charging the city with failing to provide medical care for children with asthma and a longstanding class-action suit challenging a city policy of assigning welfare recipients with children to work, both cases the previous administration refused to settle.

Under longstanding principles, government actions that fall heavily on "discrete and insular minorities" historically subject to prejudice and stigma are to be given particular scrutiny.

The House of Representatives must also approve legislation this year, and a House subcommittee has reached a compromise that removes one longstanding obstacle to action on auto emissions.

There has been a notable or notorious debate about whether the agent's reasons in acting are causes of the action — a longstanding debate about the character of our common sense explanations of actions.