Sentence examples for longstanding local from inspiring English sources

There is no continuum of Jewish life here; no longstanding local traditions remain.

Just don't expect Germanic efficiency – it's a longstanding local joke that the grumpy, indolent waiters are part of Lagoa's "charm".

In Baluchistan, Pakistan's biggest and poorest province, where legitimate and longstanding local grievances are stoking an insurgency, General Musharraf's solution has been to bomb the place.

It ended longstanding local gun controls, prohibiting city governments from enacting any ordinances on the sale, possession or use of firearms.

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.

The chocolate industry says that the use of child labor is part of longstanding local tradition that the advocates have distorted for their own ends.

Back in the Bay Area, I often get the question from longstanding locals about why young people don't move elsewhere.

In both rural and urban contexts, there was longstanding tacit local support for each cause but significant triggers were needed to open policy windows and enable civil society organizations to help shift management ideologies in the forestry and housing sectors.

Instead it pushed forward Hunt's longstanding big idea – local television.

But Congressional campaigns, especially in upstate New York, can be very personal contests, built on longstanding relationships and local perceptions.

A new civilian governor has been appointed to the Tamil-majority Northern Province, a longstanding demand of local politicians.