As a result, Abe seems likely to remain in power longer than his ineffectual predecessors, most of whom did not last more than a year.

Iran has strengthened its influence in Iraq, and has helped to keep the Assad regime, a key ally, in power much longer than expected.

A European banking union with joint liability cannot be put off much longer.

As a result, they waited too long.

Let us hope that we are lucky for a while longer.

It will survive a little longer.

First, Greek debt reduction was postponed for too long.

Similar systems have been tested for a longer time in Finland.

Right? It's impossible to overcome this sense that this is indeed longer.

It is hard to see how this can continue for much longer.

The world economy has been run for too long by finance enthusiasts.

Too many people stay for too long.

Conserving tears There are methods that allow both natural and artificial tears to stay longer.

Delivering the same result therefore takes more time, and requires keeping countries in intensive care for longer and at higher cost.

However, the longer their arrival is delayed, the greater the likelihood that trials will continue longer.

It does. Put bluntly, Americans were living beyond their means for too long.

Moody s waited even longer, downgrading Lehman one business day before it collapsed.

Bows of apology tend to be deeper and last longer than other types of bow.

It wasn't until much longer, much later, that Darwin actually spoke and wrote about humans.

The longer the turnaround lasts, the more people will believe that it will continue.

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But Japan s political system is unlikely to remain a matter of popular indifference for much longer.

When the water is allowed to flow through the filter at a slower rate, the contaminants are exposed to the filter media for a longer amount of time.

The Security Council should not allow Kosovo to dangle much longer.

We cannot and certainly should not allow the inactivity of this important body to continue any longer.

Its duration is stated as at least 18 months, but usually lasts a bit longer, 21 months in most cases.

Experience shows that once constructed, temporary buildings tend to be used for a far longer period than was originally projected.

So those hopes were always false. Indeed, most of Russia s rulers have been in office for the better part of a decade.

Under this Constitution, executive power was held by the head of Government, who was invested by the Legislative Assembly for a period of five years.

Friedrich Nietzsche said that if you look in the eye of the Devil for too long, you risk becoming a devil yourself.

I believe that this amount could be at least doubled and assured for a longer time span.

For too long, developed countries have clung to their outsize influence in the international financial institutions, even as their fiscal fitness has dwindled.

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But the window for the military to fill the power vacuum will be open only briefly.

Some of Kennedy s most ardent admirers still like to believe that he would have prevented the escalation of the Vietnam War had he lived longer.

Romney s mistake was to align himself for too long with ideas that were too radical for him and for America.

The outcome may not be much different this time around if Western central banks maintain their current monetary policies for much longer.

The real danger is that adjustment would take place even later, with imbalances left to accumulate for a longer period of time.

The highest growth rates global population increases above 1.8 per year occurred briefly during the 1950s, and for longer during the 1960s and 1970s.

The average hospital stay following a lung transplant is generally one to three weeks, though complications may require a longer period of time.

Male offspring usually leave the group before they are a year old females stay longer, and may not leave at all.

The Interim Authority exercised sovereignty for a period of six months and established the basic institutions mandated by the Bonn Agreement.

The world economy has been run for too long by finance enthusiasts. It is time that finance skeptics began to take over.

This aristocratic tradition of standing above the narrow strains of ethnic nationalism may be the best argument to hang on to royalty a little longer.

But delaying the debt reckoning for too long would undermine confidence in the US government s capacity for fiscal discipline.