Impoverished Burkina Faso has been seized by growing political turmoil since the longstanding but loathed president Blaise Compaoré was ousted in a popular uprising in late 2014.
Although the United States had closely watched weapons purchases by Peru since its longstanding border dispute with Ecuador erupted in open warfare in 1995, C.I.A. officials did only a cursory check of the deal, several American officials said.
Valcke and Blatter have operated hand in glove since the longstanding president brought him back into the fold in the summer of 2007, just six months after he had left the organisation when it emerged in a New York courtroom that he had lied to both Visa and MasterCard over contractual sponsorship negotiations.
"We're at a position in Egyptian history where the military that has ruled us since 1952, and the Muslim Brotherhood, the oldest opposition group since 1928, these longstanding institutions are facing huge challenges and they are threatened," she says.
The Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons, who has been the music director in Birmingham since 2008, had longstanding commitments elsewhere when this concert was planned.
For the Pakistanis, such spying inside their country is an extremely delicate issue, particularly since Lashkar has longstanding ties to Pakistan's intelligence service, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI.
Mr. Karzai has welcomed the electoral victories of the secular, democratic parties in Pakistan, since he had longstanding good relations with the late Benazir Bhutto and her Pakistan Peoples Party, and in particular with another coalition partner, the Awami National Party.
In his first sitdown interview as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Trump immediately waded back into controversy, refusing to back down from his longstanding – and long-since debunked – claims that Barack Obama was not born in the United States, and also refusing to denounce antisemitic attacks on a journalist who wrote a profile about his wife.
Mr. Graham has been in Florida politics continuously since 1966, and his longstanding popularity there could well offset Mr. Bush's advantage in having his brother Jeb as the current governor.
The Commission on Presidential Debates, a bipartisan group that has been running the candidate showdowns since 1988, has a longstanding invitation to both contenders to appear in three debates on college campuses in October, an offer Mr. Gore accepted months ago.
