Mr. Liem, an American wine writer based in Champagne, has a long-standing fascination with sherry and has spent much time touring the sherry region.
The highly cultured European director is said to have had a long-standing fascination with Comic-Con, according to this particular informant.
That includes tackling RBS's excessive concentrations of loans and long-standing fascination with absolute profits, not risk-adjusted returns.Reversing the second mistake, ABN, will take longer.
His success is due in part to the West's long-standing fascination with Tibet as the "cure for an ever-ailing Western civilization, a tonic to restore its spirit," as the Buddhist-studies scholar Donald Lopez said in his book "Prisoners of Shangri-La".
The jumping-off point for Bismuth's film is his long-standing fascination with a little-known and unexhibited work by the American artist Ed Ruscha: an artificial rock made out of resin and named Rocky II after the Sylvester Stallone movie.
He managed to stuff his long-standing fascination with Napoleon into a 150-page screenplay, sized up Jack Nicholson as his "Boney", with Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Charlotte Rampling and others all considered for the epic's gallery of historical bit-parts.
In our history, extremism has already almost led us into the abyss".Mr Chirac's long-standing fascination with non-Western cultures he collects Asian and African artefacts, and set up a new Paris museum devoted to this theme as well as his fear of a clash of civilisations, has made him a champion of Turkish entry into the EU, despite the hostility of his fellow countrymen.
Despite this long-standing fascination with transplantation tolerance, the ability to reproducibly induce tolerance in humans undergoing organ transplantation has remained elusive.
None were interested, so he turned to his editor John W. Campbell, who was more receptive due to a long-standing fascination with fringe psychologies and psychic powers ("psionics") that "permeated both his fiction and non-fiction".
Cultural death practices-from Dia de los Muertos to sky burial to the veneration of remains and reliquary-evince a long-standing fascination with (and attempts to understand) the end of life.
