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

Airlines and hotels have known this for a long time.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

That child was left in the sun too long.

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.

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.

They waited too long to take action.

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.

In our domestic affairs, we have managed to reverse a long process of deterioration to achieve macroeconomic stability and political institutionalization.

In expanding the Security Council, we should also address another important concern of Member States that has been debated for a long time and is ready for some harvesting, which is improving the working methods of the Security Council.

Now here's what does work Again, Bandura recognized this years ago, decades ago.

This is their baseline. This is what they think is natural because we started modern science with scuba diving long after we started degrading marine ecosystems.

In fact, the attacks, while surprising in their method, symbolic character, and scope, changed nothing. By themselves, they merely revealed the urgency of a fundamental reappraisal that has long been necessary.

If any or all of this sounds familiar, it may be because I have been arguing much the same points for some time.

These basic data have been known for a long time, and only a few deny that rapidly accelerating man made climate change is occurring.

Under the aegis of the Six Party umbrella, the United States and North Korea have even held the bilateral talks that North Korea s Kim Jong Il has long coveted.

I know him for quite sometime.

She was in Palestine recently.

And so before long, Bell were looking to new technologies to optimize their revolution.

Thanking the Committee for its interest in Puerto Rico, the speaker asserted that Puerto Rico had ceased to be a United States colony long ago but, regrettably, lacked statehood.

The policy of ultra low interest rates was justified in the aftermath of the bursting of Japan s asset price bubble, but Japan stabilized its economy long ago.

JH 10 years? Woman Yes, yes. JH 10 years, that's a long time.

I have been teaching for a long time, and in doing so have acquired a body of knowledge about kids and learning that I really wish more people would understand about the potential of students.

The Palestinian Authority s rule over the West Bank would have collapsed long ago if it were not for the Israelis daily incursions against Hamas and Fatah in areas under Abbas control.

This reflects my long held view that, in order to do its job, the United Nations must be brought fully into line with today's realities.

Anti Semitism arrived with a whole package of European race theories that have persisted in Asia well after they fell out of fashion in the West.

But such considerations were off the table well before the deliberations began.

For football lovers, FIFA (the governing body of international football) should have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize long ago.