Sentence examples for longstanding tendency from inspiring English sources

And he recently realized that his longstanding tendency to micromanage had become a hindrance.

The most destructive is the longstanding tendency of client states to pull their patrons into needless wars.

In America and Britain, there is a longstanding tendency to associate sophistication with continental Europe, and particularly with France.

In her drive for technical perfection, Ms. Streisand has a longstanding tendency to apply too many coats of aural varnish to her records.

Cabbage's unfortunate reputation stems from two things: a longstanding tendency by many people to overcook it, and the fact that it's undeniably tough when raw.

One reason New York City's health care costs are higher than the national average is that there is a longstanding tendency to use hospitals for services that are provided in doctors' offices in other parts of the country.

America's deep and longstanding libertarian tendencies explain why this country produces so many libertarian theorists and any libertarian billionaires at all.

For example, an interview with David Lochbaum, the lead nuclear analyst for the Union of Concerned Scientists, includes his longstanding concerns about the tendency of nuclear regulators to routinely approve exemptions to some longstanding safety rules (this is also a big concern of Richard Brodsky, a former state legislator from the region).

Many of these plants with weedlike tendencies already have a longstanding reputation as thugs.

It was as if the country's longstanding ills — whether a seething Islamic insurgency in the south, a corrupt legal and security bureaucracy or just an innate tendency toward social disarray — would be all but impossible to overcome.

But how longstanding is longstanding?