Unlike trick or treat, Mischief Night is a long-standing British tradition. |
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Quite why the Spanish are identified with long-standing unofficial working practices escapes me. |
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However, quarrying is a long-standing industry, one which was there centuries before tourism. |
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The commercialisation of Christmas is a long-standing theme of writers like myself. |
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If McCall has to go, then it will break a long-standing tradition in football. |
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It captures the essence of a short drink, and develops the brand without betraying its long-standing values. |
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I say no to all invitations to travel, but honour long-standing promises to appear in London and Aberdeen. |
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The firm has a long-standing relationship with Morrisons dating back more than 30 years. |
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We have a long-standing and vitally important relationship with the United States. |
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The incident was believed to have arisen out of a long-standing territorial dispute between two companies. |
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You infuse energy and romance in long-standing relationships and rejuvenate them. |
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It helps to remind us of the long-standing peace between England and France and reminds us to continue that peace. |
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Milk prices are the most long-standing problem and he particularly wanted support from the dairy industry. |
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The detector was designed to work on the long-standing solar neutrino problem. |
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Delia Smith has been a long-standing customer, and features the firm's eggs on the front of one of her cookery books. |
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They fear the change will be too stressful and that long-standing relationships with staff will be shattered. |
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She saw a lot of herself in my wife, who, in turn, never forgot the long-standing kindness that had been shown to her family. |
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It seems the long-standing fashion for north European looks is now fully and officially dead. |
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Mr Beaton's family have also been long-standing members of Yorkshire's farming community. |
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New York's reputation as fashion capital of the United States is long-standing. |
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In light of its vast market power, Wal-Mart has infuriated the media with its long-standing refusal to stock obscene CDs and racy magazines. |
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Now funds have been obtained to meet the long-standing demand for a roundabout at the junction of Mill Green Road. |
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Nor should we forget his long-standing advocacy of studying material culture. |
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And in some situations reclaimed land is already degraded and faces long-standing feral animal or weed infestation problems and future risks. |
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We propose a new dynamic model in order to help reconcile the long-standing controversy in Central Asia. |
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It is, after all, an environment in which genres featuring androgynous males have a long-standing tradition. |
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The second jam session is on Wednesday and Bejazzled continue their long-standing residency at the Old White Swan on Thursday. |
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This suddenly changed the long-standing political antagonism between the East and the West. |
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Finding a new platform to express their long-standing rivalry, both Britain and France opted out of judging for medals. |
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It is also a sport that has a long-standing connection with Scotland. |
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My last few posts on the subject notwithstanding, anyone who knows me can vouch for my credentials as a long-standing and ardent Russophile. |
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As a struggling performer, Gleason ran a long-standing tab at a Philadelphia restaurant, Hackett said. |
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The flight prize was an easy choice for the leading lawman with a long-standing interest in aviation. |
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The government has closed thousands of underground betting parlors that were defying the long-standing official ban on gambling. |
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Italy's long-standing tradition of male chauvinism has been delivered a bitter blow with the opening of the country's first women-only beach. |
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The Department of Health has a long-standing commitment to the provision of preventive barrier methods. |
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She has a long-standing interest in the social structural bases of economic activity. |
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Fishermen from the Cinque Ports claimed a long-standing right to beach their boats and to dry their nets there. |
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Hollywood films have a long-standing tradition of minimalizing women's roles, and a very simple way to demonstrate this is the Bechdel Test. |
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Patients with long-standing gout may have tophi over the olecranon prominence, first metatarsal joints, or pinnae. |
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Russian surveillance planes already fly over America, thanks to a long-standing treaty. |
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Why is the administration proposing to abandon the long-standing tripwire function of U.S. forces in the country? |
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Prima facie, the long-standing problems of trisecting an angle, squaring a circle, and doubling a cube are not questions of existence. |
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Anne is unduly modest on her blog, but she is a long-standing author of Mills and Boon romances. |
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The feud is the result of a long-standing turf war between the two groups to control the North's drug trade and extortion rackets. |
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They have lifted a long-standing moratorium on offshore oil and gas exploration as part of their commitment to doubling petroleum production. |
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He is also a long-standing and articulate defender of Israel's right to defend itself against the unceasing depredations of its neighbors. |
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The interview below is an example of his long-standing uncommunicativeness concerning any criminal active by himself or any others. |
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First, it held unconstitutional the long-standing rule that injury was to be presumed from the mere fact of publication. |
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Milk contains tryptophan, which probably explains why a warm glass of milk at bedtime is a long-standing home remedy for sleeplessness. |
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He is a long-standing member who competes regularly, if usually unspectacularly, off his 23 handicap. |
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It also reconfirmed its anti-militarism manifest in its tiny regular army and long-standing neutrality. |
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Their talents at brokering a peace after such long-standing hatred would be far more usefully employed bringing together real warring factions. |
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It renews a long-standing love affair between the cable channel and the Brummie lecturer. |
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They also have a similarity to the small blood vessels damaged in long-standing diabetes. |
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I too am distressed at the construction of a bund to prevent the long-standing annual visits by Romany families to an Ilkley riverside location. |
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Cities like Vienna and New York have long-standing ballet traditions, and it's normal to have fans waiting for autographs at the stage door. |
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Some of the long-standing trustees are standing down either by retirement or resignation. |
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After a half-century of division, the countries of east and west Europe could end their long-standing isolation. |
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The occasion afforded staff the opportunity of paying tribute to a long-standing member of staff. |
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Perhaps the major threat to sterling comes from the long-standing association between the British and US economies. |
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In the same period, English investors slowly overcame a long-standing suspicion of stockjobbers and the share markets. |
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Nine unions called the latest stoppage in a long-standing protest by workers against privatisation plans. |
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He continued to write operettas and finally realised his long-standing intention, to compose an Irish operetta. |
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A long-standing critic of the festival, The Gazette had itself astonished readers three years earlier by changing step. |
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A long-standing tip for classic skiing is to drive the hip forward over the new ski. |
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Rather than imposing their own agenda onto Scripture, the scholastics were following long-standing patristic traditions of interpretation. |
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He was dismissed after the evangelical vicar discovered that he had long been cohabiting with his long-standing partner. |
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This is an outrageous perversion of the long-standing law that the creator has the exclusive right to license his work. |
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Cliff is just too common to be accepted into a world dominated by the likes of long-standing regional bowls champion Ray Smith. |
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We have given long-standing support to comprehensive education and we stand by that. |
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The Choctaw were surrounded by Confederates and held long-standing grievances against the United States. |
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Apparently such procedural irregularities, including violations of long-standing court rules, are not so irregular. |
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There's even a rumour flying around that it might be Manchester City, given Keane's long-standing friendship with Stuart Pearce. |
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Washington's motives are widely distrusted and its various foreign policy postures are viewed suspiciously, even by long-standing allies. |
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This result also solved a long-standing open problem concerning the existence of certain fractal sets in the plane. |
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An attempt is made to heal the long-standing feud between the Danes and the Frisians by the marriage of the Frisian king Finn to Hildeburh. |
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There has been a long-standing controversy in parapsychology as to whether true precognition is possible. |
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But if you read on, you find that this only means that some of the long-standing evidence deniers merely keep on denying the evidence. |
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Fourier wanted to elevate the status of manual labor, to rescue it from a long-standing tradition of degradation and denigration. |
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He had been a long-standing enthusiast for home rule at a time when it merely served to reinforce his marginal status in the party. |
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Because of my own long-standing interest in John Townsend, I was quick to suggest the dining table. |
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A mother in her forties wrote that she had long-standing problems which she was desperate not to transmit to her daughter. |
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The relationship seems to work wonders on him, too, as he begins to shed pounds, visit the gym and even break his long-standing habit of biting his nails. |
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It was also a reform which concentrated on a single, highly contentious aspect of transplantation law and ignored long-standing proposals for reform and European initiatives. |
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The policy is a long-standing gentlemen’s agreement under which the IMF managing director is a European and the World Bank president is an American. |
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A long-standing mystery in marine biology is whether whales suffer from decompression sickness, aka the bends, after rapidly rising from the ocean depths. |
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I cannot argue the case for Deptford copperas before the mid-17th century, but it was clearly a long-standing works when taken over by the Crispe family after the Civil War. |
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I've known him for a few years and he told me he was meeting with lawyers to deal with some long-standing, unhandled business issues that were now rearing their ugly head. |
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Founded to settle long-standing territorial disputes and to demilitarize borders, the organization now stresses counterterrorism cooperation and regional trade. |
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The long-standing York RL Supporters' Club, meanwhile, will remain independent, as it always has been, but will continue to play its part in raising money for the rugby club. |
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I have worked on both gill-netters and trollers, and I know that the disagreements and misunderstandings between their adherents are deep and long-standing. |
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Republican fealty to the interests of the investor class has been long-standing. |
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All the while, I'd be serenaded by the musicians in the street, who continue the long-standing tradition that has given the world rhumba, mambo, and son. |
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But according to sniffy British sources, the arrests were the result of a long-standing intelligence operation that began long before the American alerts. |
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He's had a hand in one long-standing magazine and one that went under, so he seemed like the perfect person to show me how the land lies in the magazine world. |
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As everywhere, political labels were stuck on innumerable long-standing local antagonisms and vendettas and provided new justifications for pursuing them. |
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However, I believe that these complications will be a thousand times recompensed by the fundamental and long-standing significance of this enlargement. |
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They marked World Health Day with a focus on road safety and a reaffirmation of the industry's long-standing commitment to fighting drunk driving. |
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This study calls into question our long-standing view that warm-blooded mammals were only occasional and accidental hosts of this human fungal pathogen. |
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The obtuse authoritarian administration has finally opened its eyes and realized that it must do something to address long-standing public rancor. |
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Set in the world of publishing, Pinter's play lays bare the tangled relationships of its three main characters together with all the hurts of a long-standing affair. |
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It also provided a window on the long-standing predilections of a generation or three of trustees who got goose-bumps when anything English strayed into their path. |
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And so some long-standing policies have changed dramatically and in a hurry. |
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I think the concern with limiting access to criminal records or other things, is a really long-standing, really strong support for a principle of open justice. |
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Nor does it jibe with Habayit Hayehudi's long-standing preference to harness the Housing Ministry for settlement building. |
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Also, in communities where long-standing Mediterranean diets have been shifting toward more Westernized food choices, the prevalence of obesity is on the rise. |
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Constructing an expansive environmental narrative enabled activists to find new ways to seek, and sometimes achieve, long-standing political goals. |
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The move buttresses Hormel's long-standing strategy to form joint ventures with Mexican, Asian, Indian and Mediterranean brands to cater to the growing ethnic population. |
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But the long-standing animal attractions are past their sell-by date, and will look particularly grim to families who've been to SeaWorld or Busch Gardens in Florida. |
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He said the long-standing conflicts between the Minnan and Hakka people derived from mutual miscommunication due to language and cultural barriers. |
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Bassett shows that de Selby was hors de combat from his long-standing gall-bladder disorders at least immediately before the passages were composed. |
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In this paper we cast the long-standing debate in transformational grammar over movement derivations vs. well-formedness conditions on chains in a new light. |
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He has a long-standing affinity for situating cartoony figures in various biblically scaled cataclysms and animistic riots of imperiled architecture. |
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He says Scotland in Europe seems still to conjure up something of a distant challenge and this is despite the Scots' long-standing reputation for internationalism. |
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With funding for stations nationwide limited, the Fire Service has had a long-standing policy to charge for call-outs to commercial or private property. |
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The measure aims to solve the long-standing problem caused by the need to have separate winning posts for hurdle races and chases. |
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Why have people forsaken martinis, Manhattans, old fashioneds, and other preprandials of long-standing popularity? |
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From scrumptious karanjis to ghee-laden anarsas and spiral chaklis, making sweets and savouries during Diwali has been a long-standing tradition. |
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Technically speaking, IGT is trying to regain a long-standing uptrend after being mired in a decline since late spring. |
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But the long-standing debate over how best to divvy up fragmentary fossils into hominid species has not vanished. |
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Purgue uncovered the ear phenomenon while investigating a long-standing puzzle about vocal sacs in frogs and toads. |
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Then the debt crisis hit and Greece's long-standing and endemically chronic finances almost brought down the entire Eurozone. |
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The credit line to the FINCA, a long-standing client of the EBRD, will consist of two parts. |
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Taken together with Fermi LAT data, these observations challenge long-standing predictions. |
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Della Seta's discussion of the customary cutting of cabalettas, for example, acknowledges a certain long-standing legitimacy to the practice. |
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Such information may help resolve a long-standing question about where lawrencium belongs in the periodic table. |
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Foothill abortion, also known as epizootic bovine abortion, has been a long-standing problem for California beef cattle producers. |
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They contend that the charges stem from a long-standing dispute between the Church of Scientology and local officials and police. |
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Chronic, long-standing infections of the middle ear often result in both conductive and sensorineural losses. |
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The long-standing crusade against corruption on Gandhian lines was undertaken by the 'Gandhian Sevaand Satyagraha Brigade' and its predecessor. |
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The wrinkly club boss with a long-standing penchant for Speedos, is regulary snapped letting it all hang out. |
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Deputy head teacher Alison Carter, who replaces Babs in the New Year, paid tribute to her long-standing colleague. |
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The long-standing theory has been that spiral galaxies merge with each other forming most of the elliptical galaxies in the Universe. |
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It is actually a neuroscientific reworking of incongruity theory, a long-standing explanation of humour. |
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Having this industry insight could impact whether a long-standing brand concentrates on its backlink profile in detail, or not. |
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Both centers will support EDS' long-standing relationship with General Motors, GM's Roadside Assistance will be the anchor client at the Sault Ste. |
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But the faster-than-light speeds still need review and confirmation, and even if confirmed might integrate rather than demolish long-standing ideas of how the universe works. |
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In long-standing gout, deposits of uric acid crystals may collect in the earlobes and the soft tissues of the hands, forming small, creamy lumps called tophi. |
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His long-standing relationship with Sarah O'Donnel ended before Christmas, his horses have had a virus, even Kendal Cavalier ran rottenly when last seen in early February. |
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Morrice said Young was a long-standing colleague, having worked for 18 years at the former Scottish Spar retailer Watson and Philip, where Mortice was the sales director. |
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A ROW involving the driver of a tourists' road train and a delivery man over a long-standing dispute over access had to be broken up by an off-duty policeman. |
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The spot is probably an enormous, rotating storm, like Jupiter's long-standing Great Red Spot, Neptune's Great Dark Spot, and Saturn's Great White Spots. |
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Five major discontinuities are combining and will force IT organizations to change long-standing practices for procuring and managing IT, according to Gartner, Inc. |
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Sohar Port and Freezone spent the day in high spirits, as it celebrated its long-standing partnership with Holland by hosting its seventh annual Herring Party. |
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My son was born at the time of the Bay of Pigs crisis and I marched against the Vietnam war, so I have had a long-standing interest in making my voice heard for peace. |
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Every element, every assumption, every custom, every jot and tittle of the rule, no matter how long-standing and sacrosanct, became refreshingly suspect, tiringly suspect. |
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The swansong wouldn't be complete without its long-standing archnemesis and, through the miracles of science, Michael Rosenbaum's Lex Luthor makes a dramatic reappearance. |
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The milestone marks a long-standing collaboration between the two companies on the design of sophisticated bearing solutions for automatic transaxles. |
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In 1994 National Marine Fisheries Service biologists attempted to solve a long-standing problem facing Hawaiian monk seals in the northwest Hawaiian Islands. |
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