long-continued

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Although he vigorously argued as a legislator that Congress couldn’t create a national bank, after losing that debate he later accepted as president that the long-continued “decision of the nation” should “over-rule individual opinions.”

From Slate • Dec. 11, 2025

Any long-continued dearth of novices would be as serious for the church as drought is for a farmer.

From Time Magazine Archive

The long-continued Depression has brought unprecedented unemployment, a catastrophic fall in commodity prices and a volume of economic losses which threatens our financial institutions.

From Time Magazine Archive

This may be a long-continued process, not confined to old age, but merely making itself apparent then.

From Time Magazine Archive

The calamitous consequences of this long-continued system of oppression and extortion can hardly be overrated.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.