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  • It might even mean reconsidering the long-existing strategy of guaranteeing progressive votes to all and any Democrats on every Election Day to avoid worse horrors.

    Bernard Weisberger: Onward Wisconsin Bernard Weisberger 2011

  • With a long-existing pattern of social and professional discrimination against Mustached Americans, AMI behavioral economists sought to better understand which top-performing metropolitan areas provide the most nourishing opportunities and livable communities for people of Mustached American descent.

    Dr. Abraham Froman: AMI Seeks to Reward American Cities Embracing Mustached American Culture Dr. Abraham Froman 2011

  • Hitler slapped a new label on long-existing hatred but he did not invent it.

    Berlinski's Wisdom 2010

  • This is why it gets so silly for U.S. liberals to keep using the term “Likud” to describe the long-existing hawk consensus in Israel.

    Matthew Yglesias » Bibi Courting Rightwing Bloggers 2009

  • He took pains to point out that most of the present roads in California, like roads everywhere in the world, were laid out to follow long-existing paths and trails, which had probably been traveled upon for centuries.

    In The Shadow of The Cypress Thomas Steinbeck 2010

  • He took pains to point out that most of the present roads in California, like roads everywhere in the world, were laid out to follow long-existing paths and trails, which had probably been traveled upon for centuries.

    In The Shadow of The Cypress Thomas Steinbeck 2010

  • I wanted to avoid being caught in the long-existing rivalry between the Rockefeller moderates and Goldwater conservatives.

    COURAGE AND CONSEQUENCE KARL ROVE 2010

  • It quickly became clear to her that this anger was not a temporary function of seeing the sleeping man, but the delayed manifestation of a much more profound and long-existing anger that she had kept buried deep in her soul for a very long time.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • I wanted to avoid being caught in the long-existing rivalry between the Rockefeller moderates and Goldwater conservatives.

    COURAGE AND CONSEQUENCE KARL ROVE 2010

  • Buchanan failed to deal well with long-existing tensions in the US.

    Matthew Yglesias » Here All Week 2007

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