Sentence examples for longstanding habit from inspiring English sources

Another problem for Republican clubs is that Republican candidates in New York have a longstanding habit of not getting elected.

As for Dr. Moskowitz, he is still receiving invitations from drug companies, despite his longstanding habit of spurning them.

Apart from longstanding habit, I also rent this apartment because I am a writer, and I write better in New Orleans than I do elsewhere.

After all, the IRA's own longstanding habit of robbing banks to fund all sorts of activities – including politics – showed only marginally less finesse.

More often, though, the proposals drift away, victims of longstanding habit and the entrenched interests of those who have made the Academy Awards into what they are.

Indeed, Lincoln most likely intended for the government's agreement with Kock to coincide with his issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation, fulfilling his longstanding habit of pairing emancipation and colonization together.

I'VE been wanting to change some of my longstanding habits that I'm not so fond of.

Their problems were not periodic symptoms, like moodiness or panic attacks, but issues rooted in longstanding habits of thought and feeling — in who they were.

In the study, researchers in Canada enrolled 226 addicts with longstanding habits who had failed to improve using other methods, including methadone maintenance therapy.

In a Senate hearing Wednesday, Ron Bloom, another adviser on the auto task force, also talked about the need for G.M. to break longstanding habits that have made the company, with its bloated structure, lose a step to more nimble competitors.

Still, it was a longstanding colonial habit to picture the empire's jewel as a congeries of religions, castes and languages: in effect, a black hole of community belonging and identity, from which few flickers of individuality escaped.