Sentence examples for longstanding troubles from inspiring English sources

But analysts said that Borders had longstanding troubles, including its slow progress in shedding its small-format Walden bookstore locations.

Even amid the longstanding troubles at the home, though, the surgeries stand out, according to a review of case records and interviews with state officials and residents' relatives.

The list of obstacles is daunting, including both longstanding troubles — the shortage of skilled labor, the absence of a solid legal system, deeply embedded corruption and dilapidated infrastructure — as well as new ones, including surprisingly high prices.

G.M., the nation's biggest automaker, posted its lowest United States market share in decades, searched for answers to its longstanding troubles in Europe and struggled to overcome the lingering, politically charged stigma of being "Government Motors".

Ogoniland is just a sliver of Shell's onshore oil fields, and the out-of-court settlement is unlikely to end the company's longstanding troubles in a volatile part of Nigeria that is even more violent now than it was back in the 1990s.In this section The promise and peril of independence Payback time?

Pakistani government and security officials believe the strike took place on January 15 in Shawal, a thickly forested area of in North Waziristan, a longstanding trouble spot bordering Afghanistan.

Mr. Correa, too, had longstanding trouble with the law, having been arrested 18 times and served two long prison terms in the 1980s and 1990s for dealing drugs.

In its hopeful quest for enlightenment on a solution to Chinese-Tibetan issues, "Tibet's Stolen Child" looks to longstanding trouble spots like Northern Ireland and South Africa and draws on the opinions of six Nobel peace laureates, including the Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, who counsels negotiation.

The move by General Manager Lou Lamoriello changed Sunday's conversation about the Devils, which until then had been about longstanding financial troubles that appear to have worsened in recent weeks.

Given the childhood obesity epidemic and the longstanding economic troubles of America's apple growers, boosting the apple's performance so that it could, as an industry observer explained, "stand up to ordinary use," was a doubly urgent project.

When Coty made that offer public last month, it sought to capitalize on Avon's troubles, including a continuing investigation into allegations of bribery in several countries and a longstanding difficulty in raising its stock price.