The Earps had a long-standing dispute with the Cowboys.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

So I've given this first lecture a title, the title being "Milton, Power, and the Power of Milton," because any introduction to Milton has to confront the long-standing conviction in English letters of Milton's power or his strength as a poet.

所以我给这第一场讲座起名叫做，米尔顿，力量，以及米尔顿的力量“,因为只要要介绍米尔顿，就无法绕开,米尔顿作为诗人的力量,这一英国文学一直以来的话题。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

How long have you been standing here?

你在这儿站了多久了？

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The wrestlers have long-standing conflicts with each other.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

Now we've been charting for a couple of weeks now Milton's long-standing project to purge his lips of secular interests and to cleanse his literary consciousness of the tempting influence of secular literary voices, and one of those voices is obviously Shakespeare's.

现在我们已经讨论了几个星期了,弥尔顿长期坚持的项目像净化世俗利益,净化世俗的文学看法的影响,对他文学意识诱惑，其中有一个看法显然是莎士比亚的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Last Thursday,Mr.Obama renewed the long-standing injunctions imposed in the early days of the Islamic Revolution against financial dealings with Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.11.15

So Levenson, who draws actually on long-standing work by other scholars, and earlier in the twentieth century even , Levenson finds several of the main elements of the Hittite suzerainty treaties in this speech.

所以Levenson凭借其他学者，甚至是二十世纪初的学者的作品，发现了在这段演说中,有几个存在在Hittite领主条约的主要元素。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

They have largely resisted long-standing requests to send more troops to the war-torn country, particularly to more volatile areas.

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

There's different sorts of attributions we could make to people but Heider's insight is we tend to attribute other people's actions to their personality characteristics, to long-standing aspects of what they are.

我们会对别人的行为想出各种各样的原因,但Heider发现我们通常会把他们行为的原因归为,他们的性格原因，他们固定不变的一面。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The meeting violated a long-standing rule of Egypt's press syndicate, or union,that forbids any contact between its members and Israelis.

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

In the recording, the man identified as Bin Laden reiterates long-standing grievances including American support for Israel and "some other injustices."

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

But it says that has allowed some long-standing disputes among national and regional leaders to re-emerge and become a concern for the long term.

VOA: standard.2009.03.31

Last year,President Obama revived a long-standing request for Saudi Arabia to move towards recognition of Israel.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

When questioned about the long-standing rivalry between India and Pakistan, Mr.Obama said it is not Washington's role to try to resolve the conflict from the outside.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

President Assad noted that dialogue was the best means to end long-standing disputes with Tehran, arguing that any attempt to contain a country ends by strengthening it.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

The high court is expected to rule soon on a case unresolved from last term involving long-standing restrictions on corporations and labor unions contributing to political candidates.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

Despite Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's campaign rhetoric, which signaled a possible Japanese shift away from Washington, he and President Barack Obama said their countries' long-standing alliance will continue.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

Pakistan says resumption of the dialog must focus on resolving the long-standing disagreement over the Kashmir region, claimed by both countries and a catalyst for several of their wars against each other.

VOA: standard.2009.06.11

Many in Britain point to events like the policing of the G-20 as further evidence the country's police are slowly drifting away from their long-standing traditional role as servants of the public.

VOA: standard.2009.04.21

A long-standing drought, along with recent devastating bushfires and widespread floods have given some scientists more reason to think that the vast continent is likely to be one of the countries hardest hit by a shifting climate.

VOA: standard.2009.05.03

"They're not quite there yet. There have been some serious efforts to deal with a combination of long-standing problems in the auto industry and the current crisis which has seen the market for new cars drop from 14 million [vehicles in annual sales to nine million.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30