There were, in the land, the long-established Schools of Prophets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference

Our long-established friendliness with Russia has remained unshaken.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

They were no more than the long-established customs of the community.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

It's the one reason to treasure Chandos's long-established Opera in English series.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strauss: Ariadne on Naxos, Christine Brewer et al, Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Armstrong] Reference

By reversing long-established safeguards, the Supreme Court has turned back the clock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonkbook: Tax vote delayed; DISCLOSE fails again; Lew blocked] Reference

A week or so later, I returned to the Tabernacle for a far more long-established event.    From Wordnik.com.  [The new wave of literary events] Reference

The long-established status quo is very comfortable, and we are used to its deficiencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janet Ritz: Investment Fund Chairman on Climate Change: Grantham Says Buy It] Reference

And the entire abolition of long-established commutation rates has happened more than once.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monopolies and the People] Reference

There were at first no written laws, but only the long-established customs of the community.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

Like every long-established institution, it is conservative in methods as well as in principles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference

But even in long-established FTSE 100 groups, executives have struggled to tackle fatality rates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vedanta stripped of safety awards in light of Indian site disaster] Reference

I hold to native pronunciation, except in cases of long-established custom, and consider "the Yamen" as clumsy as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pan-Islam] Reference

Negritos in the long-established rancherias have four-posted houses of bamboo, with roof and sides of cogon grass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Negritos of Zambales] Reference

But she is putting up a spirited rear-guard action to preserve the long-established job security of her union members.    From Wordnik.com.  [Schoolyard Brawl] Reference

What it does often mean is that long-established political models can no longer claim the consensus they thought they had.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swedish Voters Expose Fractious World Politics] Reference

All have close, collaborative relationships with their doctors and a long-established mechanism for keeping people healthier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Does Your Hmo Stack Up?] Reference

But despite these drawbacks, this year's breakthroughs do mark the end of our long-established way of thinking about the virus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End Of Aids?] Reference

Will those reminders that he's a man with long-established ties to other world leaders be enough to tip the balance in his favor?.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Politics Isn't Local] Reference

Their historians and biographers have succeeded to the good-will, as well as to the long-established stand, of the shop of glory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference

In the last few months, TCL has committed hundreds of millions of dollars to revive long-established but faltering Western brands.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE BUY SIDE] Reference

He, nevertheless, established innovations the thought of which would have given respectable and long-established statesmen a shudder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lloyd George The Man and His Story] Reference

At first, as has been already stated, feeling its way with difficulty amid a host of obstacles, long-established and successful rivals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Peninsula, amidst its opulent cities and long-established civilization, that the resources for a war of sieges could alone be looked for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference

In a long-established tradition, Brazil's president will open the debate, followed by the U.S. president as the leader of the host nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poverty, Conflicts, Center Stage at UN Annual Meeting] Reference

It does so in all old, wealthy, and long-established communities; it is the well-known and oft-described premonitory symptom of national decline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference

Doing much more than that, however, would be a radical departure from her past behavior and a drastic reordering of her long-established priorities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Child Of Camelot] Reference

Like Perón, Thaksin came to power by shattering a long-established political order and energizing the dormant countryside with a raft of pro-poor policies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thailand’s Juan Perón] Reference

In this long-established tax dodge, a company creates a new subsidiary to hold the businesses it wants to keep, leaving behind only the ones it wants to sell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loophole King] Reference

They have accused both leaders of manipulating poor, uneducated rural voters to upset Thailand's long-established social order and even challenge the monarchy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crackdown] Reference

Unlike the Chinese editions of Vogue, Elle and Cosmopolitan, iLook doesn't have access to globally franchised content or long-established ties with luxury brands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Godmother of Chinese Designers] Reference

Lax enforcement of existing regulations allowed both investment and commercial banks to circumvent long-established banking rules to take on far too much leverage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Principles for Economic Revival] Reference

It's been interesting to me to go over various long-established periodicals and note controversies between attempting positivists and then intermediatistic issues.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

Despite the fact of the long-established and almost universal use of lime, it can scarcely be said that we as yet clearly understand the exact nature of its action.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

In accordance with long-established custom, they can either be found posing rock band-like with an attitude of studied cool, or embroiled in some kind of wacky tableau.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paste masters: the art of the Edinburgh fringe poster] Reference

University Corps, who, having long-established traditions, looked upon the newcomers as upstarts, and fights between them were constantly occurring when they met in public.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference

The bill amounted to £5, 14s. a-head; or, as Hazlewood expresses it, "according to the long-established principles of 'Maysterre Cockerre,' each person had £5, 14s. to pay.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference

Miller is now the president of Seeds of Peace, a long-established and, in its way, revolutionary program that brings together Israeli and Palestinian teenagers to learn each others 'histories, hopes and fears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadowland: Dick Cheney in the Hot Seat] Reference