Sentence examples for longstanding wounds from inspiring English sources

Mr. Smith, along with Sanford's mayor, Jeff Triplett, and other community leaders, is seeking to repair longstanding wounds laid bare by Mr. Martin's shooting — namely the distrust that many black residents harbor toward the city's police.

The ostensible aim of such efforts has not only been to rectify past wrongs and give those who have been wronged their due, but to heal deep and sometimes longstanding wounds caused by such wrongs as well.

Wounded, wounded, wounded!

To the Editor: "Feeling Warehoused in Army Trauma Care Units" reminds us that despite the better news out of Iraq in the last year, the United States will be faced with the longstanding problem of caring for the warriors wounded in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Israel's attack in 1967 on the intelligence ship Liberty, which killed 34 American sailors and wounded 171 others, was deliberate, according to a new book on the National Security Agency, disputing the longstanding Israeli claim that the attack was accidental.

Longstanding tensions between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Muslim Rohingyas boiled over in Myanmar in June; the authorities say 77 people were killed and more than 100 wounded.

But how longstanding is longstanding?

Adidas is a longstanding partner.

"It's a longstanding belief".

Longstanding board member of the NYSAVA.

This is, of course, a longstanding position.