If you think of it, the whole system of public education around the world is a protracted process of university entrance.

Mr. President, a secure environment is a precondition for a viable political process and for long term development in Haiti.

This is a long, slow process One of the things I like about it, it's multi generation.

Germany has long standing ties with Afghanistan.

In other words, Palestinians are playing a long game.

Japan s experience shows that a recession that results from a financial crisis can be extremely prolonged, because deleveraging is a long process.

Esther Perel The secret to desire in a long term relationship

(a) Is of long duration and is proportionate to the extreme seriousness of this offence

Iran is also reaping the returns of long term investments.

The late exit students got the best results.

My country has a long, historic relationship with the African continent and its peoples.

The challenge of combating terrorism requires sustained, long term and global action.

The crisis in Europe s southern neighborhood reflects a deep seated transformation process that will have long lasting consequences for the region, for Europe, and for the world.

But this is not a long term risk worth taking.

GDP risk is a long term risk.

Beyond that, we need a long term plan.

(a) Is substantial and proportionate to the extreme seriousness of this offence

Shortsighted politicians like Bush often skimp on long term investments in favor of short term advantage.

Long term investments, not short term profits, and productive work, rather than paper gains, need to be supported.

As a long term strategy, energy embargoes have always proven to be futile. Saudi Arabia saw its share of world oil exports drop sharply in the 12 years after the 1973 1974 embargo.

On the contrary, democracy is a long term task.

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

It also provides victims of family violence with long term protection orders.

It was stated that the Government requires a long term plan to reform its armed forces.

A successful long term strategy cannot be seen as a succession of short term fixes.

A significant change in these areas will require sustained long term efforts.

Whatever their short term benefits and popularity, gestures of such gravity always entail serious long term consequences.

So China s government must have a medium and long term plan to address problems caused by a drawn out global slump.

It would be wrong to draw long term conclusions from short term economic information, even if this information confirms reality.

In such a context, a common long term strategy is extremely difficult to conceive.

But these instincts can be bolstered by wise long term policies.

Tocqueville believed that there are no effective long term constraints on this tendency.

This is likely to be a long drawn out and expensive process with an uncertain outcome.

Public diplomacy, by contrast, involves building long term relationships.

There is a clear need for both long term development programmes and quick impact projects.

That strategy encompasses a clear approach to achieving sustainable poverty reduction and long term economic and social development.

The key challenge is to support these five sectors in order to combine short term relief with long term reconstruction and development.

Most importantly, they have to be long term, since reconstruction itself is a long term process.

Maybe this allows him to focus more on long term fundamentals and thus to make investments that may not perform well in the short run.

We are faced with forging a new long term policy that affects both states and societies.

They were aimed at improving Germany's ability to survive a long, protracted war in the West.

But these gains were not long lasting, as they were reversed in the next Ottoman Safavid War.

Official development assistance (ODA) was a catalyst for development and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, because development was a long term process that required the mobilization of financial, human and technical resources beyond the means of many countries.

California is an example of long run fiscal folly meeting short run national and global economic crisis, resulting in chaos.

The consequences of Europe s rush to austerity will be long lasting and possibly severe.