Sentence examples for longstanding flood from inspiring English sources

"There is no indication where the 13 hectares mentioned in this case are, but any benefits seen in localised areas will need to be viewed by the environment minister against the damage being done to productive farmland, longstanding flood banks and established woodland on large parts of Tayside".

There have been longstanding tensions there between Han Chinese, who have flooded into the area, and native Uighurs.

But the downfall of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in Libya sent a flood of weapons into Mali, bolstering a longstanding rebel movement in the country's vast desert north and delivering many defeats to Malian forces.

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Faced with a flood of criticism from users, Yahoo, the vast Internet service, reversed a longstanding policy and said yesterday that it would remove a wide range of pornographic material from its site and make other such information harder to find.

And now, some people are using the high waters from North Dakota to New Orleans to revisit longstanding questions about whether the very government programs designed to safeguard people from floods, including protective measures like dams and levees and recovery programs like flood insurance and disaster assistance, actually encourage them to take unnecessary chances.

In February, the former chancellor Lord Lawson, a longstanding climate change sceptic, was given equal time on a Today programme debate about climate change and flooding with Professor Sir Brian Hoskins, a climatologist.

But how longstanding is longstanding?

Adidas is a longstanding partner.

"It's a longstanding belief".

Longstanding board member of the NYSAVA.