Sentence examples for longstanding procedures from inspiring English sources

"Longstanding procedures were short-circuited on issues that deserve more thoughtfulness.

The decision to invalidate the Apple patent was made under longstanding procedures for re-examining previously granted patents.

Northwest is applying longstanding procedures for health emergencies to deal with SARS, said Kenneth J. Hylander, the airline's vice president for safety and engineering.

The aide contended that the billing followed longstanding procedures in which legitimate travel expenses for the police detectives were spread among the budgets of various mayoral offices.

Captain Durand, however, said that there had been no change to longstanding procedures for searching the Korans, in which prison interpreters, who are Muslims, touch the book.

Cyber network specialists within the Air Force Space Command last week followed longstanding procedures to keep classified information off unclassified computer systems.

And come to think of it, they add, the longstanding procedure is fundamentally flawed.

The military says that those claims are false and that a Muslim interpreter leafed through the books while guards watched, following longstanding procedure.

Longstanding procedure registries include those developed by professional societies such as the United Kingdom's Society for Cardiothoractic Surgery's adult cardiac surgery database or the Society of Thoracic Surgeons' registry.

The two defendants said they had done nothing wrong and had simply been following longstanding bidding procedures.

It was mainly a belated reaffirmation of longstanding church procedures that at least one bishop attending the meeting argued had been ignored for too long, according to church documents and interviews.