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How to use the word longstanding in a Sentence?

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The Chapter 11 process will allow SVB Financial Group to preserve value as it evaluates strategic alternatives for its prized businesses and assets, especially SVB Capital and SVB Securities, sVB Capital and SVB Securities continue to operate and serve clients, led by their longstanding and independent leadership teams.

William Kosturos

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Europe’s vulnerability that was suddenly exposed existed because of a longstanding complacency by Western powers, western Europe had not been willing to listen to the frontline states who warned over the Russian regime’s intent and understood that more expensive energy was a price worth paying in exchange for not being vulnerable to Russian pressure. This complacency left Russia with multiple open goals to kick at in major Western European capitals, most notably Germany.

Keir Giles

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These are longstanding town residents, they have a very keen interest in town affairs, many of them owned property and so they had a vested interest in how the town conducted itself, for us, it was really just a matter of recognizing people living in the town.

Barney Rush

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It opens the door to equality, there are no longstanding cryptocurrency institutions setting the rules.

Terrance Leonard

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We'll continue to fly, sail, and operate where international law allows, consistent with our longstanding commitment to freedom of navigation, and that includes conducting standard air and maritime transits through the Taiwan Strait in the next few weeks.

Kurt Campbell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re not in the habit of previewing private discussions we have with other leaders before they happen, but President Biden took actions with respect to the Khashoggi murder right after coming into office, the President’s views on human rights are clear and longstanding, and fundamental freedoms are always on the agenda when he travels abroad, just as they will be during this trip.

White House

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

General Allen’s counsel is deeply concerned about the serious and damaging ethical breach that occurred with the public release of a search warrant affidavit containing confidential grand jury information, not only did the breach offend longstanding law and Department of Justice policy on the confidentiality of ongoing investigations, but the narrative presented in the affidavit and now made public also is factually inaccurate, incomplete, and misleading.

Beau Phillips

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We believe this will be a longstanding office, they are already ready and willing and raring to go.

Sharunda Buchanan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The proliferation of Russia-aligned information operations, in both scale and tempo, suggests the importance that Russia places on shaping the information environment, we've observed known actors leverage longstanding campaign assets and infrastructure to target Ukraine during the invasion, using capabilities they've invested in developing over time.

Alden Wahlstrom

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We've built longstanding and trusted relationships with our partners to ensure we can deliver the iconic square fresh, never frozen, beef burgers our fans have come to expect and love.

John Li

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s simply not enough for the league to declare its good intentions, this is a longstanding crisis that must be confronted with diligence and rigor.

Derrick Johnson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's no need for me to restate my longstanding support for the 60-vote threshold to pass legislation. There's no need for me to restate its role in protecting our country from wild reversals of federal policy.

Kyrsten Sinema

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We hope to more fully understand Nebraska’s concerns and goals, as so far those concerns and goals are quite simply hard to make sense of, our longstanding compliance of and respect for the water agreement between our states on the South Platte River remains intact, and we hope that our partners in Nebraska will show that they share that respect.

Jared Polis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's no need for me to restate my longstanding support for the 60-vote threshold to pass legislation, there's no need for me to restate its role in protecting our country from wild reversals of federal policy.

Kyrsten Sinema

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's no need for me to restate my longstanding support for the 60-vote threshold to pass legislation. There's no need for me to restate its role in protecting our country from wild reversals of federal policy, this week's harried discussions about Senate rules are but a poor substitute for what I believe could have and should have been a thoughtful public debate at any time over the past year.

Kyrsten Sinema

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Contrary to decades of consistent bipartisan opinions from the Justice Department that senior aides can not be compelled by Congress to give testimony, this is the first President to make no effort whatsoever to protect presidential communications from being the subject of compelled testimony. Staff Mark Meadows remains under the instructions of former President Trump to respect longstanding principles of executive privilege. It now appears the courts will have to resolve this conflict.

George Terwilliger

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The evidence at David Morris trial was incredibly weak, and our post-conviction investigation unearthed even more evidence supporting David Morris longstanding claim of innocence. We're grateful to Mr. Carter's family for assisting in The CIU investigation despite the pain The CIU investigation must have caused, and we want to thank all former staff, students, and colleagues for their hard work. I look forward to seeing Mr. Morris as a free man later today.

Michele Nethercott

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We're extremely gratified that The CIU investigation confirmed the results of the University of Baltimore Innocence Project Clinic( UBIPC) / MAIP investigation into Mr. Morris's case, the evidence at David Morris trial was incredibly weak, and our post-conviction investigation unearthed even more evidence supporting David Morris longstanding claim of innocence. We're grateful to Mr. Carter's family for assisting in The CIU investigation despite the pain The CIU investigation must have caused, and we want to thank all former staff, students, and colleagues for their hard work. I look forward to seeing Mr. Morris as a free man later today.

Michele Nethercott

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Yale University and Yale Law School have strong free speech protections, and no student is investigated or sanctioned for protected speech. When the Law School receives complaints about offensive communications, the Dean of Students routinely tries to help students talk to one another and resolve their disagreements within the community, at no time was any disciplinary investigation launched or disciplinary action taken in this matter. While any person may report concerns about a lawyers’ character and fitness to the Bar, the Law School has a longstanding policy of reporting only formal disciplinary action to the Bar Association. Any media reporting to the contrary is false.

Yale Law School

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

New York's longstanding proper-cause requirement does not violate the Second Amendment, for centuries, lawmakers have protected the public by reasonably regulating such matters as who may possess arms, where they may be taken, and how they may be manufactured, transported, sold, stored, and carried.

Brian Fletcher

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Justice Ginsburg was a consistent voice for procedural integrity at Supreme Court, justice Ginsburg would have been up in arms over Supreme Court allowing such a restrictive law to go into effect in direct contravention of longstanding precedent and while Supreme Court has a pending merits case before Supreme Court implicating the same core issues.

Amanda Tyler

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The OCC's actions today point to work we must continue to do to address significant, longstanding deficiencies, building an appropriate risk and control infrastructure has been and remains Wells Fargo's top priority.

Charlie Scharf

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The act is clearly unconstitutional under longstanding Supreme Court precedent.

Merrick Garland

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What’s really troublesome and almost frightening to know is that we have a commander in chief who does not see the imperative of bringing the Americans home, that’s a longstanding ethos, not just of the military, but of America.

Yet Boykin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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