Both countries have a long-standing passion for coloured stones, some of which are seen as bringing good luck (yellow sapphires in Hinduism, for instance).
Their decision to use a backup band on "Area 52" derived from a long-standing passion for Cuban music and a request by their record company for a further album while they were touring relentlessly for "11 11".
I love commissioning things, and I buy things beyond what I can physically afford.' She has a long-standing passion for Wyndham Lewis and has a couple of recently acquired 1932 drawings on the walls.
He is particularly indignant at the idea that he has operated a whites-only music policy on his Radio 1 show, pointing out his long-standing passion for reggae and African music and gospel and deep soul and numerous other categories of non-whites-only music I am unfamiliar with.
"While I do get quite a few people applying to my lab … very few have a long-standing passion to understand the aging brain," Barnes writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.
LitWorld grew out of a long-standing passion for literacy education, earlier contained in the educational consultancy LitLife.
New Liberal deputy Josh Frydenberg cited his long-standing passion for Indigenous affairs, while both Mathias Cormann and Stuart Robert stated that he has a lot to offer in the role.
Several years ago, as French President Jacques Chirac worked on his legacy to the French cultural landscape (a tradition that has given us Pompidou's Beaubourg and Mitterrand's pyramid and opera), he decided to focus on his long-standing passion: various collections were requisitioned, and indigenous starchitect Jean Nouvel was drafted to create a landmark "Museum of Primitive Arts".
It's all about believing in what you're doing, knowing your voice, standing on that passion.
One of the best parts of the book was the author's recounting of coach Dean Smith's passion for standing up for the wrongs of society, in particular segregation against African-Americans.
Unless you can provide haemorrhoid pillows, we're standing!" Is football an enduring passion?
