In response, in the most pointed language yet from a Bush administration official, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates declared that Russia's actions now required a full reassessment of administration efforts to create "an ongoing and long-term strategic dialogue with Russia".
"Because of his ongoing and long-term presence he has been a stabilizing force to allow business people and civil society in the area to exist in a way that successive elected governments have been unable to guarantee," said the man, who spoke on the condition he not be identified out of fear of antagonizing Mr. Coke or his backers.
"We suspect this is an ongoing and long-term natural cycle triggered by rising sea levels at the end of the last ice age," says Conway.
Coastal change is ongoing and long-term so that management is necessarily a process and effective delivery requires an adequate monitoring programme to inform management decisions.
Now utilizing multiple prisons across the US, this "ongoing" and "long-term" partnership expects to reach a supply of 150 horses by the end of next year.
We need federal funding for independent, ongoing and long-term monitoring of our water, soil and air across all affected areas so we can be assured if and when the environment is clean.
Additional studies to determine what effects these unique variations have on DNA repair and CSR are ongoing and long-term.
Urine and blood cadmium are biomarkers of ongoing and long-term cadmium exposure.
Increasing MCH nurses' ability to conduct home visits would support ongoing and long-term retention of families in the service.
While the initial clinical result of CSCs is exciting, caution should be taken as the study is still ongoing, and long-term assessment of larger randomized control trials is still needed.
Urinary cadmium reflects cadmium concentration in the renal cortex and is a biomarker of both ongoing and long-term cadmium exposure, whereas blood cadmium is a biomarker of ongoing exposure (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry 1999).
