Sentence examples for remove the longstanding from inspiring English sources

The California ballot measure, like the one in Arizona, did not remove the longstanding federal prohibition against doctors' prescribing drugs like marijuana and heroin, in which the government recognizes no medical value.

"This legislation is the first of its kind in this country, and its passage and implementation will go a long way to remove the longstanding stain of police torture from the conscience of the city".

The officials said the actions were intended to eliminate an unsteady currency that still bears the image of Saddam Hussein and remove the central bank from its longstanding subservience to political leaders -- a role that helped to spawn crippling inflation during the past decade.

On Monday, health officials, acceding to longstanding requests from advocacy groups, persuaded a state judge to remove the operators of one of the most troubled homes, Seaport Manor in Brooklyn.

But the Japanese lobbying to remove the monument seems to have backfired — and deepened animosity between Japan and South Korea over the issue of comfort women, a longstanding irritant in their relations.

Donald Zief, a Montclair town councilman, said the inclusion of the parking garage removed the town's longstanding opposition to the station and to the introduction of Midtown direct service in Montclair.

In a major concession to the demands of South Korean business leaders, the finance minister, Jin Nyum, said today that the government would remove some of the longstanding constraints on ownership of banks by the nation's leading conglomerates.

Executives from AOL rushed to remove a longstanding intramural rivalry between the WB broadcast network and the Turner Broadcasting System's cable networks, including CNN, TNT and TBS.

The ongoing conflict is an opportunity to remove a longstanding threat to U.S. values and interests in the region.

The draft code would also remove a longstanding provision that obligates landowners to replant deforested areas along riverbanks, allow them to replace some virgin forest with nonnative, commercially attractive species like eucalyptus, and redefine what constitutes jungle.

The particular geometry and kinematics of the wind model also remove longstanding problems with having the quasar broad emission line region (BELR) gas be pressure confined.