The long-run significance of the elections.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

"That shows long-run rather than short-run thinking.".    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT TO DO NEXT] Reference

The argument for it "must rest on long-run considerations.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Schumpeter: The Prophet] Reference

This should lead to slightly higher returns in the long-run.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expect More for Less from New Insurance Plans] Reference

Kavanagh says in the long-run visitors at least will come back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arizona Immigration Law Generates First Challenges] Reference

Our long-run objective is to achieve a program of direct Federal and.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

But, he said, in the long-run it is certain to drive economic growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hungary Does Without EU and IMF] Reference

Brazil's natural resources remain a major, long-run economic strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1996 CIA Factbook] Reference

He also opines that "long-run success seems unlikely" for airline unions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unions Are Not Airlines' Main Profitability Problem] Reference

However, time no doubt will balance the account all right in the long-run.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Rimington] Reference

All these types of aid benefit our long-run economic and political interests.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

Improvement in the education sector is critical to the long-run catch-up process.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference

More emphasis on the long-run costs of entitlement programs in budget projections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who is Jack Lew and what should he do?] Reference

It is not the same kind of pay, but it is always, in the long-run, larger and better.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters] Reference

If we are to prevail in the long run, we must expand the long-run strength of our economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

Addressing long-run budget deficits now, Mr. Mishkin adds, would give the Fed flexibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quarterbacks Get Out 'Hail Mary' Economy Passes] Reference

But the primary causes of our long-run deficits are rising health-care costs and low revenues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five myths about unemployment] Reference

"There really is a need for the Congress to get serious about long-run fiscal sustainability.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Quarterbacks Get Out 'Hail Mary' Economy Passes] Reference

Privatization of several enterprises in coming years may stimulate long-run foreign investment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

In the long-run it wears down all opposition, but it is not a characteristic you notice at first.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Rimington] Reference

There are other accounting approaches that would better reflect long-run values for these assets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting the Economy Back On Track] Reference

"Each data release is causing people to make long-run conclusions about the economy," Hoenig said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Hoenig, Top Fed Official, Warns Fed Risks Repeating Past Mistakes] Reference

The crowding of habitable land area and the aging of the population are two major long-run problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference

And if these readers be chiefly professed divines, the people will in the long-run reap the benefit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference

The crowding of the habitable land area and the aging of the population are two major long-run problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1996 CIA Factbook] Reference

Every one appeared possessed of a sane and calm belief that things would work out right in the long-run.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

Inflation is below the Fed's long-run objective and growth is likely to be "modest" in the near term, they added.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fed Worried, but Defers Action] Reference

Japan's huge government debt, which totals 175\% of GDP, and the aging of the population are two major long-run problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Yes, long-run success seems unlikely, even hopeless, just as the UAW seems destined to keep withering in the auto industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama's Last Stand in the Air] Reference

Over the long-run, this really will make it impossible to imagine Republicans letting Warren through a confirmation process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elizabeth Warren cont'd] Reference

Hankey Pankey 'not being much of a speaker -- "three cheers for the old flag that has never been licked yet in the long-run!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy] Reference

But the readjustment to long-run equilibrium that might have occurred unde r a better monetary system is still being thwarted.    From Wordnik.com.  [China's Real Monetary Problem] Reference

Japan's huge government debt, which totals more than 160\% of GDP, and the aging of the population are two major long-run problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2005 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Japan's huge government debt, which totals more than 150\% of GDP, and the ageing of the population are two major long-run problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

It is true that amateur purchasers do not, in the long-run, make a profit, though an occasional bargain may pass through their hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference

It is safer, therefore, and on that account more economical in the long-run, to apply our phosphate in excessive quantity than the reverse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference