What about New York's longstanding self-image as a landscape of mean streets filled with mean people?
While all nations regard their causes as just, and all demonize their enemies, the combination of American might and its longstanding self-image as uniquely virtuous irritates even its allies.
Tokyo has also relaxed its longstanding, self-imposed ban on export of arms, thus opening the path to building closer security cooperation with like-minded countries.
At the moment, auditors are supposedly kept honest by a longstanding system of self-regulation, in which big firms conduct "peer reviews" of each others' audit practices.
David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, who recently spent time in Israel talking to government officials, said that Israel's longstanding doctrine of self-reliance makes American promises to act later if all else fails less effective.
A GAS PUMP CRISIS -- In response to rising fuel prices and the proliferation of gas-guzzling SUV's, the governor reverses New Jersey's longstanding ban on self-service gas staions.
Right up to the end, Letterman maintained his longstanding and highly self-aware interest in anticlimax: the flattest show was the next-to-last one, with Bill Murray (who was warm and invested but not particularly funny) and Bob Dylan (who was cold and distant and, in his own way, hilarious).
The fight for a measure of autonomy by Syria's Kurds is the newest conflict in a broader struggle in which Kurds, spread across Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran and oppressed for decades, are trying to take advantage of the chaos in the Middle East to achieve longstanding ambitions for self-government and democratic rights.
On the contrary, chronic neuroinflammation is a longstanding and often self-perpetuating response that persists long after an initial injury or insult.
In keeping with China's longstanding policy of self-interested neutrality at the UN, Xi inveighed little of the crises in the Middle East, topics which dominated the speeches of his American and Russian counterparts.
The UN Charter provides foundation for intervention(s) from the longstanding principle of self-defense to the more recently branded "Responsibility to Protect" or "R2P," a new international security and human rights norm evolving from failures of the international community, (the UNSC, particularly in BiH), to prevent and stop genocides, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.
