Germany has long standing ties with Afghanistan.

Such has been the long standing policy of Colombia.

This is a long standing arrangement which has worked successfully.

Christianity in Kosovo has a long standing tradition dating to the Roman Empire.

My country has long standing, close relations with many parts of the world.

You been standing there long?

The European Community has long standing experience in helping to stabilize countries emerging from conflicts in all possible corners of the world from the Balkans to Indonesia, from Afghanistan to Africa.

How long have you been standing there?

How long have you been standing here?

Bolivia has had the bitter experience of long dictatorial interruptions in its institutional life.

It has supported Iraqi Shiite groups since the early 1980 s and has an equally long standing alliance with Syria.

The smuggling of illegal aliens into the Philippines has been a long standing problem in that country.

A comprehensive ban on nuclear testing has been a long standing objective of the international community, including Myanmar.

So standing back in time and space from the immediacy of experience.

Global diplomacy must focus on resolving long standing disputes.

How long have they been standing in what positions?

The relationship between age and the ability to learn languages has also been a subject of long standing debate.

It can only occur even among soldiers in combat if the individual has a psychoneurotic condition of long standing.

UNCTAD has a long experience of addressing issues relating to macro economic balance in resource dependent economies.

ILO will also share its long standing experience in bringing together Governments and social partners representatives of workers and employers in order to reach constructive and balanced decisions.

Our long standing position on the NPT is well known.

The first has to do with Romania's own record of making the regional dimension a hallmark of its long standing foreign policy and action, as well as with its experience in contributing to conflict management in our region.

There has been a recent reversal in the long standing tendency to place all protected areas under highly centralized management.

Egyptian judges have a long standing tradition of discretion and propriety.

This debate between realists and idealists is intense and long standing.

The Board has, therefore, been able to remove the long standing qualification of the audit opinion in respect of agency expenditures.

BUDAPEST The economic and financial crisis has been a telling moment for the economics profession, for it has put many long standing ideas to the test.

The Forum has in particular a long standing position of vigorous support for disarmament, especially nuclear disarmament, and opposition to nuclear testing.

Flouting international law was a long standing practice of the Israeli leadership.

Technology can often promote innovative approaches to solving long standing social problems.

Many of those individuals had a long standing relationship with the Organization.

This of course is a long standing concern of the United Nations.

He has waived America s long standing demand that Iran stop uranium enrichment as a precondition for negotiations, and he has sworn off any idea of regime change.

Strengthening our ties with Africa has been a long standing aspiration of Brazil's. No previous Government has pursued that objective with the resolve demonstrated by President Lula.

(a) Long term experience in technical cooperation and capacity building

The other members of the new Standing Committee bring a broad array of experience and skills.

To help settle this long standing dispute, I studied why the number of recognized psychiatric disorders has ballooned so dramatically in recent decades.

Such an indication has no taxonomic standing.

Under his leadership, the long standing and painful Aceh conflict was peacefully resolved.

This regulation constitutes a long standing demand on the part of social movements.

Now behavior change is something that is a long standing problem in medicine.

The cluster on justice reform draws on the Institute's long standing experience in criminal and juvenile justice, which have been major fields of action since the establishment of the Institute in the 1960s.

Sarkozy, for example, has revived a long standing French argument for some form of economic government in Europe as a counterweight to the ECB.

OIOS is pleased to note that considerable effort has been made during the reporting period to address some of the long standing critical recommendations.

Substantial progress has been made on various long standing issues, particularly with regard to the reduction of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction.