While longstanding companies like Avon and Tupperware now sell in retail outlets as well as through individual consultants, other companies are finding profits in events that can resemble old-style coffee klatches.
There is no clear, organized Scientology assembly removed from the Church, and while longstanding independent organizations like CADA exist, most people on the outside follow their own interpretations and their own rules.
Film and television will, for the foreseeable future, continue to exist, at least nominally, since networks and studios have been around for a while, and longstanding Hollywood entities don't give up their designations easily.
It is hard to imagine a successful democratic transition while these longstanding and often brutal little wars continue.
While the longstanding relationship between the two makes some assistance almost inevitable, there are no indications that Hezbollah has moved significant arms or personnel Assad's way.
While the longstanding assertion that every fingerprint is unique may be true, that doesn't mean the reading of those fingerprints or similar types of evidence is foolproof.
The charge is that the previous Labour government privileged a handful of relationships (with the US and the EU, for instance) while ignoring longstanding allies such as the Gulf Arab states, Singapore and Japan.
Others in places from Sheffield to Bristol, Wales to Scotland, Winchester to Manchester to Birmingham are sensing the burgeoning appetite for this work – while the longstanding though under-publicised National Association of Writers in Education continues to go from strength to strength.
In recent elections in the state of Maharashtra, which includes Mumbai, Modi campaigned on the same platform of governance and economic development that won him the national polls in May while a longstanding alliance with the local hardline rightwing Shiv Sena party was broken.
China figured in the US presidential election campaign four years ago with Barack Obama emphasising co-operation while raising longstanding concerns about the value of its currency, which critics accuse Beijing of setting at an artificially low exchange rate to boost exports and slow imports.
While many longstanding establishments continue to carry on the genre's rich traditions of affordable comfort food, Art Deco architecture and folksy service, ambitious newcomers are giving classic diner dishes chef-driven makeovers and expanding our understanding of what a diner can be.
