Example sentences for: longstanding

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  • Mankiw also updates Samuelson's chatty tone--the putative source of his longstanding success with students--with such pop references as Jim Carrey's seemingly excessive compensation and Mia Farrow's $2,900 rent-controlled New York City apartment.

  • Similarly, a "challenged agency''-one that has longstanding management weaknesses and high-risk operations or functions, such as the Department of Defense (DOD)-may also be a good first phase candidate.

  • As noted by Doherty and Zinkernagel [ 4 ] , simple dominance for resistance to each of several diseases can create allele-specific overdominance for total fitness, if different alleles confer resistance to different diseases [ 10 31 ] . For these reasons, our results, while relevant to the longstanding debate over the relative importance of various kinds of balancing selection in maintaining MHC diversity [ 32 ] , raise doubts about only one of several lines of evidence for the overdominance hypothesis.

  • Cuttting fellow MCs is a longstanding rap tradition, but the murders of rap stars Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. pretty much shut down the diss-record business.

  • In some cases, the new emphasis on homeland security has prompted attention to longstanding problems that have suddenly become more pressing.


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