Sentence examples for were longstanding from inspiring English sources
adjective
Having persisted for an extended period of time.
- After many years the longstanding disagreement broke into open legal action.
Other workers also confirmed that these practices were longstanding and commonplace.
Many of those most troubled by the move were longstanding season ticket holders at Upton Park.
Among the documents, he said, were longstanding security protocols for protecting the president.
But many in the congregation that morning were longstanding church members.
Self-disclosure, cooperation, remediation and disgorgement were longstanding and widely known considerations that the DOJ weighed before the Pilot Program.
U.S. relations with the Gulf states were longstanding, and America would stay true to those friendships, as well.
Her misery was longstanding.
But how longstanding is longstanding?
"The church here is longstanding," he said.
But Portugal's fiscal malaise is longstanding.
The commission's problems are longstanding.
