Last year, months before a presidential election, a law raced through Congress confirming the country's longstanding television duopoly.
The underlying problem is that the longstanding American goal on the Korean peninsula -- reunification of the North and South -- is precisely what the Chinese fear.
RI President-elect Wilfrid J. Wilkinson (left) and RI President William B. Boyd demonstrate the longstanding Rotary tradition of exchanging pins.
Mr Letwin is a longstanding proponent of radically refashioning and reducing the state’s role, but Number 10 is wary lest Mr Cameron appear a rip-roaring, ideological son of Margaret Thatcher.
North Korea, a longstanding ideological ally, has had increasingly testy relations with China in recent years.
They say it distorts the local economy and undermines longstanding if less lavish efforts to create a workable local government.
After the risk of recession has receded, the United States must work to correct its longstanding trade deficit with the world by slowing national spending and increasing savings.
But longstanding underinvestment in agriculture, along with sharp increases in fuel and food prices, followed by the economic crisis, has driven an estimated 100 million more people into poverty.
The relationship between victimology and criminology is a longstanding issue within the academic realm.
He has answered longstanding grumbles about public transport by repairing Cuba's pot-holed roads and buying new Chinese buses.
Night after night, she came to tuck me in, even long after my childhood years. Following her longstanding custom, she'd lean down and push my long hair out of the way, then kiss my forehead.
Whether such a system would work for patients with longstanding nerve damage is unknown.
It does, however, loosely reflect longstanding differences between Americans' attitudes to taxation and those in much of the rest of the rich world.
We are pleased to have resolved this longstanding puzzle.
The Callaghans had already packed and left, not in haste but in keeping with a longstanding British tradition that the transfer of power in all its aspects should be quick and decorous.
The conflicts between clear-sighted and potential rules on local government debt have been a longstanding problem in China.
This description catalogs a mass upsetting of longstanding elements of the Snow White story.
Is it a piece of thoughtful artistic reflection, or something more closely related to Eminem's longstanding enthusiasm for shocking the media?
H. pylori infection is often longstanding.
Being one of the orgins of the world civilization, the longstanding Chinese culture and tradition had played an important role in the world; for example, the dissemination of the eastern culture to the western world had lasted for over one thousand years.
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