Sentence examples for over the longstanding from inspiring English sources

His centre-right National party had won a resounding victory over the longstanding Labour government.

Mr. Gurung's party has launched an agitation, not armed but marked by sporadic spurts of violence,  over the longstanding demand of a separate Gorkhaland state for the people of Darjeeling Hills.

American officials concede that it would be extraordinary for Mr. Bush to get directly involved in the impasse between Israel and its would-be Palestinian partners over the longstanding issue of who makes the first gesture to defuse the violence and tensions.

The United States trade representative, Charlene Barshefsky, announced that despite a brief thaw last month that lowered tensions between the two countries over the longstanding dispute, Washington would file a complaint against Mexico for hearing by a dispute-settlement panel of the W.T.O.

Even if the betrayed partner is a willing participant, there is a huge hurdle for the partner to get over the longstanding deception.

Then came this preemptive capitulation over the longstanding Democratic position on the Bush tax cuts, which was already weaker than it should have been.

The former dentist and minister of health took over from the longstanding dictator, Saparmurat Niyazov, after the latter's death in 2006, and went about establishing a personality cult every bit as overblown as that of his predecessor.

They could come up with a reasonable number of weeks, and move those books over to the longstanding list, making room for other books.

Over time, the longstanding emphasis on fibrillar Aβ deposits and neuronal death slowly gave way to a new paradigm involving soluble oligomeric forms of Aβ, which play a prominent role in triggering the cognitive deficits by specifically targeting synapses and disrupting synaptic signaling pathways.

Is there anything more tedious than the longstanding furore over prisoners and voting?

Azerbaijani forces have shot down an Armenian military helicopter, the defence ministry in Baku said, in a flare-up in the longstanding conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.