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Example sentences for: long-standing

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As Christopher Hitchens pointed out simply and clearly in his great (and much-hated, and banned) book (and film, too, though I haven't seen it) on Mother Theresa, it's one thing to say you have this long-standing religious belief and tradition and you want to stick to it out of devotion to your faith, but when you are not only a) blindly encouraging poverty-stricken masses to breed like rabbits, but also b) actively stopping, I mean, going out of your way to directly oppose, the efforts of those courageous souls who are trying to make sure those people can get a handful or two of grain and maybe a few ounces of clean water to wash the parasites out of their underwear every day.
An article finds a new use for DNA technology: One scientist wants to determine if Thomas Jefferson fathered black children (a long-standing controversy).
The truth, though, is that this fascination (by people who really ought to know better) with violence and outlaw behavior is a long-standing phenomenon.
To help stimulate the economy, the islands were finally relieved of the long-standing and controversial requirement that, as colonial appendages of France, they could trade only with the French and usually only in French ships.
Although the authors met the BMJ 's requirements for financial disclosure, the disclosure did not provide readers with a full picture of the industry's long-standing involvement with the authors.