He wrote a book about the final years in the political life of a long-time mayor of Boston,Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

Long-time Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter announced he is leaving the Republicans to join the president's Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

The seventy-one year old cried tears of joy as she told the crowd the award was "a long time coming" but worth the wait.

VOA: special.2011.02.18

Calhoun said that for a long time he had believed that the dispute over slavery -- if not settled -- would end in disunion.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

Every year at this time, the peasants began their long religious pilgrimage to Geed-leh, to visit the church there, and to pray for God's help.

VOA: special.2011.02.19

But politics is (takes) a long, long time to make any significant, long-lasting difference."

VOA: special.2010.05.09

When I had waited a long time, without hearing him lie down, I decided to open a little -- a very,very little -- crack in the lantern.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

This long-time policy gave senators firm control over local federal jobs.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

He and long-time friend Don Simpson formed Simpson-Bruckheimer Productions.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

"It's a big deal. How big a deal you have to measure piece by piece but clearly it is the first major change in our health care system since nineteen sixty-five so that's a long time coming."

VOA: special.2010.03.27

But Obame is unlikely to emerge as the leading opposition contender because long-time challenger Pierre Mamboundou remains in the race.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

But he said Israel would not agree in advance to Syria's long-time demand to withdraw from the strategic Golan Heights.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

The past year brought the first decade of the new millennium to a close with several long-time champions reasserting themselves.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

The election was held to replace long-time president Omar Bongo, who died in June after 42 years in power.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04