All too often these have been greedy, arrogant, and short-termist: changing them will require co-ordinated efforts, maintained over decades.
The entity "Northern Ireland" had been maintained over decades by so-called "emergency" laws which, among other things, had allowed some of its citizens to be detained without charge or right to counsel and stripped of the right to a jury trial for certain charges.
Patients with acromegaly who have very high concentrations of GH and IGF-1, maintained over decades, have a doubling in the incidence of colon cancer.
It does sound like an impressive study, and any study maintained over 2 decades deserves kudos for that alone.
Even before the verdict the court case shattered Harris's public persona as a cuddly family entertainer, one maintained over six decades of stardom.
Most fortuitously, he was apparently a graphomaniac who documented his long, dark, exuberant, sad, dangerous life in journals, an unpublished memoir, reams of letters, poems, erotica, semifictionalized short stories and even a 746-entry card catalog of his sexual history, scrupulously maintained over five decades and in some cases ornamented — perhaps for future biographers?
The "Festival Polonaise" pas de deux, choreographed by Harald Lander in 1942 and 1963, must have worked better once, since it has been maintained over the decades, but as danced in 2007 by young Gudrun Bojesen and Ulrik Birkkjaer, forced unmusically onto its Johan Svendsen score, it looks like a too-determined gala concoction.
Immunization programmes, like many essential health services, need to be maintained over many decades in order to derive important life-saving benefits.
The $52 billion annual investment envisioned by McKinsey is four or five times more than the nation currently spends on energy efficiency, and would have to be maintained over a decade.
Range of motion was also well maintained over the decade.
Whether such results can be maintained over a decade is uncertain.
