Milo Djukanovic's longtime grip on Montenegro

Tom and Mary are longtime residents.

Longtime regime opponents, too, were caught off guard.

Tom and Mary are longtime residents of Boston.

Tom Rosenthal, another longtime customer, went faithfully to Verb starting in 2003.

One of Lamb's longtime friends described him as smart, charismatic and funny.

This is Dave Arringdale who's actually been a longtime guest at Vivian's motel.

Adam Welz is a writer filmmaker, longtime naturalist, addicted birder and inveterate debater.

While there have been differences over Iraq, such issues among longtime friends are not new.

Some of these resignations, like that of the longtime Governor of Moscow Oblast, Boris Gromov are particularly suspect.

In the novel, his wife was replaced by his longtime friends George Wingrave (George) and Carl Hentschel (Harris).

Indeed, Matthias Warnig, the chief executive of the pipeline consortium that Schroeder will chair, is a longtime Putin friend.

Nevertheless, the tusovka endures, perhaps due to the peculiarity of the Russian blogosphere and its longtime sequestration at LiveJournal.

Elena Kostyuchenko is an investigative journalist for the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and a longtime LGBT rights activist in Moscow.

In the Russian blogosphere, one of the petition's greatest advocates has been longtime anti oppositionist blogger Stanislav Apet'ian (LJ user politrash_ru).

The Uruguayan newspaper Brecha, where Galeano was a founder and a longtime contributor, published an obituary following news of his death

Mahmoud Abbas, Arafat s longtime deputy and the architect of the Oslo accords, quickly secured the backing of Fatah, the PLO s core body.

He has finally fulfilled his longtime dream of setting up a cafe cum library in India's financial capital for impoverished street children.

All it took was for the revolt to succeed, longtime dictator Moammar Gaddafi to be captured and killed and American involvement to end.

The Gambia was thrust into the spotlight this week after the country s longtime president, Yahya Jammeh, announced a ban on female genital mutilation (FGM).

Similar efforts are now needed in Morocco, where seven civil society advocates, including longtime Global Voices contributor Hisham Almiraat, face trial for their advocacy.

Ironically, it is America, Saudi Arabia s longtime protector, which made Shia empowerment possible by overthrowing Saddam Hussein and bringing Shiite parties to power in Iraq.

Leading the new Verb is Cisco Rodriguez, a longtime employee at the old cafe who is an owner and the general manager at the new place.

Longtime members of the European Union now seem to doubt the Union s future, but we in Ukraine look at the European Union with hope and admiration.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson is to be replaced by the Brazilian Sergio Vieira de Mello, a longtime UN diplomat, on September 12 th .

Alice Cooper, who has not toured for his last two albums, parts ways with his longtime label Warner Bros. and goes on hiatus from the music industry.

The election of Putin s longtime acolyte and handpicked successor, Dmitri Medvedev, as Russia s president means that Putin is formally surrendering all the pomp and circumstance of Kremlin power.

Now the Kingdom s longtime protector, the United States, which let down Abdullah by (reluctantly) embracing the Arab Spring, is poised to pull its troops out of neighboring Iraq.

The longtime perceived neglect of the institution by the current government and previous governments have fuelled student discontent, as well as what protesters say is Chauhan's lack of credentials.

TORONTO In 2002, the cognitive scientist Daniel Kahneman of Princeton University won the Nobel Prize in Economics for work done with his longtime collaborator Amos Tversky (who died in 1996).

Many would regard Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore s founder and longtime prime minister, as great, though he probably would have welcomed the opportunity to test his mettle in a larger arena.

Terry Branstad, the U.S. ambassador to China and the former longtime governor of Iowa, a major exporter of agricultural goods to China, said Beijing had hurt American workers, farmers and businesses.

Mr. Zhu has been China's Jack Welch, the tough minded, longtime CEO of the American conglomerate General Electric a man celebrated for his candor, his global sophistication, and his insistence on performance.

While there have been differences over Iraq, such issues among longtime friends are not new. Consider just a few of the divisions that have come up among NATO allies over the past decades.

Likewise, on matters of domestic policy, the interior minister, Michele Alliot Marie, has nothing close to the agenda setting power of Claude Guéant, Sarkozy s longtime aide and director general of the President s office.

The face of General Electric's longtime boss Jack Welch is in bookstore windows across China, although his latest book is probably a pirated edition because China still has a way to go on copyright protection.

At TEDxDubai, longtime English teacher Patricia Ryan asks a provocative question Is the world's focus on English preventing the spread of great ideas in other languages? It's a passionate defense of translating and sharing ideas.

Seen from the point of view of the European Union's longtime member states, the eight postcommunist countries that together with Cyprus and Malta joined the EU on May 1st seem united in their positions on most important issues.

Among the reasons for the dollar's longtime dominance as the premier international currency are lower transactions costs in foreign exchange markets, the historical role of the dollar in world trade since 1945, and the sheer size of America's economy.

He preferred to concentrate on constitutional reforms that were largely interpreted as a bid to strip the new president, Stjepan Mesic (himself a longtime opponent of Tudjman) of the robust executive powers Tudjman wrote into the constitution for himself.

The Russia that Putin is building has mutated from the post Soviet hopes of freedom into an oil and gas bulwark for his new model ex KGB elite. Indeed, Matthias Warnig, the chief executive of the pipeline consortium that Schroeder will chair, is a longtime Putin friend.

MANAMA The fervor for change that inspired revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt is now rocking Bahrain. But the uprising in Manama differs from the mass protests that turned out longtime rulers in North Africa. Indeed, sectarian fault lines, together with the security forces complete fealty to the monarchy, seriously diminish the likelihood of peaceful regime change.

MANAMA The fervor for change that inspired revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt is now rocking Bahrain. But the uprising in Manama differs from the mass protests that turned out longtime rulers in North Africa. Indeed, sectarian fault lines, together with the security forces complete fealty to the monarchy, seriously diminish the likelihood of peaceful regime change.