Its own cadres, almost entirely free of the menace and suspicion of their Shiite rivals, deem it simply the natural outcome of their longstanding grass-roots support.
Now, by challenging this longstanding system of benign neglect, bishops and grass roots zealots may believe they will achieve ideological purity.
The importance of punk, Warholian camp, hip-hop and longstanding local traditions of underground art and grass-roots activism is palpable in films, videos and photographs.
Due to the longstanding lack of support for language education at the grass-roots level in Australia, making sustainable changes to the language teacher attrition problem requires higher level policy decisions which reflect a real value for language education.
This government, of which Ms Swinson is a member, also kicked the act's provision for compulsory equal pay audits into the long grass and is now introducing legislation to abolish the longstanding practice of submitting pre-action questionnaires to the employer seeking information about what possible comparators are paid and the reasons for any pay differential.
Carlos García, the director of Puente Arizona, a Phoenix-based grass-roots group that helped organize Wednesday night's protests, repeated a longstanding demand for the city to remove ICE agents from the jail at 4th Avenue.
Whereas the favoured method of some international humanitarian organisations has been to deliver emergency relief via their own staff, our response is spearheaded by local partners with a detailed and longstanding knowledge of the situation on the ground and how things really work at a grass-roots level.
Ms. Schlafly, who helped build a grass-roots network to fight for socially conservative positions in the party, is a longstanding member.
Elsewhere, the current prime minister, Manmohan Singh, sat with his counterpart, Yusuf Raza Gilani, from Pakistan, amid speculation that "cricket diplomacy" might ease longstanding tensions between the neighbours.Messrs Singh and Gilani earned noisy cheers as they strolled together on the grass shortly before the first ball was bowled.
But how longstanding is longstanding?
