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How to use the word longer-term in a Sentence? Page #6

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A request for a proposal is being drafted to existing ARV (anti-retroviral) suppliers to allocate a percentage of their current supply volumes to Ketlaphela in exchange for a longer term supply contract with Ketlaphela.

Lunga Ngqengelele

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Arrival increases bode well for Macau's longer-term bull thesis which includes an unparalleled geographic gaming location, small mainland penetration and upcoming multi-staged infrastructure improvements.

David Bain

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I prefer to bet on stability, even if this is not going to work for French banks in the short term. I think they have a more prudent approach, which can satisfy investors over the longer term.

Mandarine Gestion Salleron

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The real case for emerging markets is two-fold: longer-term demographics and long-term economic growth. What you've seen is investors throw out that story.

Arjun Divecha

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

To me, this continues to be a counter-trend rally in the context of an intermediate to longer-term decline in the stock market. Our view is that this is nowhere near the resumption of a bull market.

James Abate

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Today what you see is the market reaction of some of the bullish investors that were hopeful of a much bigger combination, but it doesn't prevent it from happening longer term.

Stephane Beyazian at Raymond James

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is about solving problems, improving the water situation in Flint, and actually trying to improve all of Flint for the longer term.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In the short term it will add to the volatility but in the longer term it might actually reduce it because nobody will have to rush for an exit.

Gerhard Schwarz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Going from a concussion, or a mild traumatic brain injury, to some of the longer term effects that would include CTE, you have to keep in mind, there appears to be a very low frequency of that developing.

Russell Lonser

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The rains are exacerbating an already-precarious hygiene situation, while immediate measures are now being put in place to address the cholera outbreak, it is crucial also that proper investment is made on a longer term basis to improve living conditions for refugees and prevent future epidemics.

Charles Gaudry

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The path does not involve the end of fossil fuels tomorrow, what it involves is a longer-term movement toward clean energy.

Todd Stern

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A follow-up Fed hike could come as soon as March, aided and abetted by favorable oil price base-effects that will lift inflation almost a percentage point and a potentially mild winter, we should see a resumption of the dollar's longer-term uptrend as 2016 progresses.

Richard Franulovich

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A follow-up Fed hike could come as soon as March, aided and abetted by favorable oil price base-effects that will lift inflation almost a percentage point and a potentially mild winter, we should see a resumption of the dollar's longer term uptrend as 2016 progresses.

Richard Franulovich

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A follow-up Fed hike could come as soon as March, aided and abetted by favourable oil price base-effects that will lift inflation almost a percentage point and a potentially mild winter, we should see a resumption of the dollar's longer term uptrend as 2016 progresses.

Richard Franulovich

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We think it's a longer term dynamic playing out: China exporting its surplus to the Western world.

Daniel Hynes

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are seeing an impact on traffic today, but it is too soon to say whether there is a longer-term trend.

Edward Arkwright

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are seeing an impact on traffic today, but it is too soon to say whether there is a longer-term trend, the period from mid-November to mid-February is generally the slackest period of the year, with the exception of the end-year holidays.

Edward Arkwright

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You are definitely seeing more of a private equity mentality here, and activists realize if they are going to run a successful, long-term operation they have no choice but to lock in longer-term capital.

Tyson McCabe

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

People want to know there is a whole plan for the future of Syria and the future of the region because it is perfectly right to say that a few extra bombs and missiles won't transform the situation, the faster we can degrade and destroy ISIL the safer we will be, but we will only be safe in the longer term if we can replace that ungoverned space ... with a proper Syrian government.

Prime Minister David Cameron

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We expect miners to continue to cut capex, which raises concerns over their longer-term profitability.

James Butterfill

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We expect miners to continue to cut capex, which raises concerns over their longer term profitability, that's why we think we're nearing the floor in copper... as the cuts in capex will lead to a constriction on supply. Markets have also priced in a big contraction in Chinese consumption, which the data is not supporting.

James Butterfill

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

India wants to annex Nepal's Tarai region. The blockade is a tool that India is using to pressurize Nepal in making the changes in the constitution for India's longer-term political benefits.

Chitra Bahadur KC

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I will absolutely continue to look at M&A stuff but not as a requirement - as something that could be additive as part of our longer term strategy.

Chairman Robert Coury

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

( The City National deal) gives us a strategic option over the medium to longer term to deploy capital to acquisitions that enhance the franchise, we now have a strategic option with a footprint on the ground that gives us more flexibility and more capability to look at other alternatives.

Chief Executive Dave McKay

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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