Germany has long standing ties with Afghanistan.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The liberalization process has exposed the country s long standing religious divisions, leading to a wave of sectarian violence aimed primarily at the minority Muslim community.

The Union has also been a bearer of prosperity, because it is an effective mechanism for lagging members to surmount long standing barriers to development.

In truth, this is not socialism, but an extension of long standing corporate welfarism.

Iran s long standing opposition to relations with the US is a bit more complex.

The last few years have highlighted the declining potency of long standing growth models.

The paragraphs in question undermined long standing agreement concerning the financing of peacekeeping operations.

We must avoid one long standing myth and stop equating multilateralism with absolute consensus.

The disagreement over the International Criminal Court (ICC) is long standing and well known.

Society Poland has a long standing tradition of tolerance towards minorities, as well as an absence of discrimination on the grounds of religion, nationality or race.

Nor should the United Nations not lose sight of one long standing problem which has been confronting the Organization since its inception the question of Palestine.

Moreover, Congress will resist rolling back any of the long standing economic sanctions against Cuba.

And two particularly violent, long standing ethnic conflicts remain far from any resolution at all.

Even with these increases, there is a long way to go to improve America s standing.

Such an indication has no taxonomic standing.

Trichet is a tough guy with a long history of standing up to the French politicians.

What is needed is more intense bilateral diplomacy among Asian governments to settle long standing disputes.

Power conversion translating power resources into effective influence is a long standing problem for the US.

Regional organizations, such as the African Union, have shown their commitment to resolving long standing conflicts.

Concern was also expressed about the long standing provisional status of the Council's rules of procedure.

The work of the First Committee has a close and long standing connection to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the Chemical Weapons Convention.

As a result, many long standing promises will come under pressure over the next 3 5 years.

There is a long standing presumption of sovereign immunity states can be sued only under limited circumstances.

The long standing Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations seems to have been put on indefinite hold.

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

Among the reforms that have enjoyed Slovakia's long standing support is the reform of the Security Council.

The US experience has wider implications.

The stalemate in this long standing conflict has left tens of thousands of Saharan refugees living in deplorable conditions, relying for their survival on the generosity of the international community.