I know him for quite sometime.

She was in Palestine recently.

Indeed, in Italy, Fiat had long been in a sad decline.

Airlines and hotels have known this for a long time.

For a long time now, the only stories we read about Syria are horror stories, tales of death and devastation.

Your country has long demonstrated strong commitment to the work of the Tribunal.

If you go to the place where the oil has been a while, it's an even bigger mess.

What has Appachan done? Appachan, unfortunately, is no more, but he has left behind a message.

Chess has long been the centerpiece of research in artificial intelligence.

Bayrou has been in politics for a long time, including as a presidential candidate in 2002.

Israel has long since decided that it has no interest in renewing its control over the Gaza Strip.

The Nobel laureate Ronald Coase answered that question long ago.

Advances in the longstanding efforts to reform and restructure the transport sector have had mixed success.

Moreover, from the time when Mr. Martínez Ramírez was detained, his lawyer had had six months to submit the request.

It has long been feared that these so called frozen conflicts could suddenly turn hot.

All of these problems are so difficult to resolve because they have been festering for so long.

Pension funds, mutual funds, and investment banks are all long in the stock market.

The two leaders of the Right and of the Left, the favorites in all the polls for a long time, came first and second.

The relative role of loans and grants in development assistance has long been debated.

We note that many of the components of that action plan are not entirely new and have already been operational for some time.

After steadily increasing the frequency of those incursions since September 2012, China has recently begun increasing their duration.

The fact that GDP may be a poor measure of well being, or even of market activity, has, of course, long been recognized.

There's no electricity. My phone has been out of charge for ages, and I cannot contact my family in Jordan.

If the king fails to act within six months of the bill being presented to him, it becomes law without his signature.

The independent expert spoke with Ibrahim Ahmed Musa and Abdi Abdullah Ali, two prisoners who had been awaiting trial for up to one year.

The 20 reserved seats for women lapsed after the 3rd general elections held in 1988 since the commencing day of the Constitution.

The rating agencies have long placed Greek debt deep in junk territory, and are now giving Portuguese and Irish debt the same status.

Old people have retreated to villages, many growing their own food, their children having long abandoned them for the cities.

As Europe learned long ago, hardship increases with the length of unemployment, as job skills and prospects deteriorate and savings gets wiped out.

This time the subject is no longer Russia versus China, because Russia has long ceased to be a point of comparison.

The pessimists who have long forecasted that America s economy was in for trouble finally seem to be coming into their own.

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.

Not long ago, one might have concluded that, at least in Europe, there were no taboos left.

Actually, I read this great quote the other day, which was, Style makes you feel great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die.

If he crosses over to their side, he could even become their leader and triumphantly return to the throne that he formally abandoned only recently.

MEXICO CITY Not long after I took office as Mexico s foreign minister in 2001, a novel problem came across my desk.

Indeed, for a long time a globalized media culture, one unable to inspire the capacity for critical thought or create elevated feelings, has been on the rise.

Romania has, for some time now, taken the view that protection against security threats no longer means just making a stand at one's own border we have to go where these challenges originate and take them up with resolute action and sustained investments.

The State party regards interference with the family unit as an act inevitably separating a family unit (rather than simply a substantial change to long settled family life).

In conclusion, the international community has long been collaborating to find common ground for ensuring safe transport and the sustainable use and management of marine resources.

Some trials may require longer time, others less.

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The members of the Committee shall be elected for a term of four years.

They recently discovered what their Arab colleagues have known for a long time that for an oil rich regime, it is cheaper and safer to buy knowledge than to produce it.

Mortgage lending, however, is a long standing activity for commercial and savings banks, mostly unaffected by Glass Steagall or its repeal.