A longstanding friendship. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a longstanding feud. From Dictionary.com.
All were based in longstanding craft traditions and all changed through exposure to foreign techniques. From Wordnik.com. [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference
I recall a longstanding in-law fight because one relative wore a -- gasp!. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Black Book of Style by Nina Garcia - A Dress A Day] Reference
Just 6 years ago, the Supreme Court called the longstanding ban "firmly embedded in our law.". From Wordnik.com. [jillstanek.com] Reference
Mushwana's report continued what critics had labelled a longstanding trend of political deference at the protector's office. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The newspaper also said the Public Protector's Oilgate report continued what critics have labelled a longstanding trend of political deference at the protector's office. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The findings - uncovered by Megan Smolenyak, a genealogist, and The New York Times - substantiate what Mrs. Obama has called longstanding family rumors about a white forebear. From Wordnik.com. [Local News from Tuscaloosa News] Reference
But there's -- and from that, there's this kind of longstanding view -- myth -- that, you know, the British are behind everything. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2009] Reference
Another Pakistani security official said Wednesday's raid was the direct result of "longstanding" counterterrorism cooperation between Islamabad and Washington. From Wordnik.com. [Pakistan Raid Captures Seven Near Afghanistan] Reference
For black parents, creative naming is a longstanding tradition. From Wordnik.com. [From Jedidiah To Jordan: What To Name The Baby?] Reference
The longstanding problem: the 55-year-old rocker's insatiable womanizing. From Wordnik.com. [Jerry To Mick: Off My Cloud] Reference
Under longstanding First Amendment principles, Finley should be a sure winner. From Wordnik.com. [Take The Money And Shut Up!] Reference
Hague's move threatens longstanding Tory-Labour cooperation on Northern Ireland. From Wordnik.com. [War Or Peace?] Reference
Meanwhile, the government abandoned its longstanding rejection of United Nations mediation. From Wordnik.com. [Slaughter In South Africa] Reference
Tung has appointed several top-level advisers with longstanding ties to the pro-Beijing camp. From Wordnik.com. [Painting The Town Red] Reference
Other suppliers tell of GM sending mixed signals and abruptly canceling longstanding contracts. From Wordnik.com. [GM: It's Rocky in Recovery] Reference
The showdown also obliquely raised the longstanding issue of the music industry's racial divide. From Wordnik.com. [The Day The Music Stopped] Reference
The intent was to give name and "teeth" to a longstanding problem, but the results are a legal morass. From Wordnik.com. [Stalked To Death?] Reference
He enrolled in Secure Horizons, a Medicare HMO, after he forgot to renew his longstanding health policy. From Wordnik.com. [Getting The Drug You Need] Reference
That put Gingrich at odds with his own country's longstanding position that Taiwan is part of "one China.". From Wordnik.com. [A Little Fight Music] Reference
Ban has longstanding ties to the United States, where he studied architecture at Cooper Union in New York. From Wordnik.com. [REDESIGNING THE WORLD] Reference
His passionate belief in democracy has made him a longstanding ally of Megawati -- "my sister," he calls her. From Wordnik.com. [Three Against The Past] Reference
But underlying it all was the idea that the country needed to be shocked out of its longstanding complacency. From Wordnik.com. [The Summer Of Sarkozy] Reference
The premise behind their longstanding refusal to reveal their sources is that it would put them out of business. From Wordnik.com. [Hey, Rat Out That Source!] Reference
The rest of it was smothered by anti-female union policies and longstanding misogyny among male leaders on the left. From Wordnik.com. [The Feminist's Mistake?] Reference
When documents weren't released, the action fueled longstanding suspicions that the government had something to hide. From Wordnik.com. [Reopening An Old Mystery] Reference
Because of her longstanding commitment to a sound human environment, Brundtland has enjoyed a unique and respected voice. From Wordnik.com. [Paging Globodoc] Reference
Hillary Clinton, for example, declared her longstanding friendship with Benazir but failed to mention Bhutto's many flaws. From Wordnik.com. [If The World Could Vote] Reference
At first glance, the battle in the hills of an obscure corner of Iraq seems like little more than a longstanding local dispute. From Wordnik.com. ['We Can’t Go Back Until the Shells Stop'] Reference
It is not "protectionist" (I am a longstanding free trader) to complain about policies that are predatory; China's are just that. From Wordnik.com. [China's Wrong Turn on Trade] Reference
This is not as remarkable as it might seem: though a low-level volunteer, she did have longstanding fund-raising ties to Clinton. From Wordnik.com. [A Twist In Jones V. Clinton] Reference
Given the longstanding ties between the Pakistani and Afghan Taliban, a jihadist state on its border is a threat to Pakistan, too. From Wordnik.com. [Obama’s Vietnam] Reference
The short answer is Alan Greenspan, Monica Lewinsky and a longstanding Japanese policy of making money available practically free. From Wordnik.com. [The Buck Is Bruised] Reference
Yeltsin and Gorbachev, meanwhile, took dramatic new steps to break the party's longstanding grip on Soviet government and society. From Wordnik.com. [Now Comes The Witch Hunt] Reference
Bob Djurdjevic, president of Annex Research in Phoenix and a longstanding critic of the company's management, offers a typical scenario. From Wordnik.com. [Defending Big Blue] Reference
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