All are long time allies of the US.

Tom and Mary are longtime residents of Boston.

Longtime regime opponents, too, were caught off guard.

Things were better long ago.

Other restrictions of free speech have more recent triggers.

The music has its tradition from the First Serbian Uprising.

There is a wealth of wisdom in the old ways of African society.

There is, of course, a long tradition of racketeering in professional sports.

Both Caiado and Constatino are veteran participants in the Liberty Forum in Porto Alegre.

Suddenly Americans long champions of globalization seem concerned about its adverse effects on their economy.

Terror is a term that obscures rather than clarifies these long standing clashes and rivalries.

Back in the day, computers used to fill this entire room, and people actually used to work inside the computers.

Technological advances and innovation have begun to turn the longstanding dream of energy independence into a reality.

Analysts surveyed by Reuters have doubts about whether Ukraine and the IMF can overcome their longstanding disagreements regarding the terms of financing.

As Milton Friedman emphasized, however, the links between monetary policy and inflation are long and variable.

In recent years, this long running debate has become increasingly contentious and the costs of stalemate are mounting.

There are also long standing border disputes between China and India, and between India and China s ally, Pakistan.

The long standing UNOPS partnership with IFAD, and services for GFATM and GAIN, will continue in 2005.

A long time ago, most people lived in groups that moved around as the seasons changed.

Despite a long tradition of large families in China, online opinion concerning a possible Two Child Policy is mixed.

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

The disgruntled general, who has long standing ties to the type of jihadists that the United States is battling in Yemen, merely sought to settle a score with the president s family.

This is why Obama must adopt a bold diplomatic initiative that encompasses the entire region and help resolve longstanding disputes between Afghanistan s neighbors.

But it missed an important opportunity to streamline US supervisory agencies, leaving it unclear whether the longstanding gaps and conflicting mandates that contributed to the crisis have really been resolved.

There was a forum where Israelis and their long term Arab foes could sit together and discuss other matters than the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

Where Europe has adopted a common policy such as on Iran it has succeeded in persuading others, including the US, to change long held positions.

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.

Despite long standing political obstacles to some of these reforms, this may be the best and most likely moment for a political breakthrough.

The announcement that another installment of the Alien franchise will soon hit theaters has reignited a longstanding linguistic debate among science fiction and movie fans in Western Balkans.

People I work with, or people who have known me for years, separate me, the Sahar they know, from the popular idea of Muslims built in their imagination.

But despite the Hazara people's long term opposition to the Taliban, the group has not always been able to count on support coming from the corridors of power in Kabul, where it is weakly represented, either.

The flood of people is exposing new rifts among EU members, raising questions about the principle of open borders and free movement that has long been at the core of the EU.

Lisovenko s proposal complements Moscow s long term (some might say eternal ) development efforts in Siberia, as well as Russia s growing effort to halt capital flight.

Denmark has a long tradition of solidarity work, bilateral and multilateral aid offered by recognized experts and organizations that navigate the complex field of development.

I'm talking about both more recent episodes, like the Chechen Wars, and things from the more distant past, like the deportation of entire peoples in Stalin's time, and the tragic events in Kabardino Balkaria, for instance.

At a time of slow growth, lingering high unemployment, and difficult fiscal situations in some countries, it is understandable that longer standing members of the EU sometimes focus more on the potentially disruptive difficulties than the opportunities.

MOSCOW During the Cold War, the Soviet Union and, in a milder way, the United States imposed external limits on the activities of states and societies, causing longstanding conflicts among smaller countries to be frozen.

Previously spurned by America in its attempts to use its longstanding contacts in Asia, this assistance appears to have convinced America that Russia can be of real help in its diplomacy with North Korea.

To most Chinese, the Japanese are paradigmatic devils, not only because of the brutality of Japanese imperialism and the sheer number of Chinese killed by Japanese troops.

This Catholic saint is an important figure in Peruvian culture, and devotion of Saint Rose offers a clear example of how long held traditions in Peru have been incorporated into a modern world of quickly advancing technologies and social media.