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

But above all they were fed up with restrictions�of which the long-continued blackout was almost the symbol.

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

Aided by a hefty grant from the tobacco industry, the A.M.A. announced that it was embarking on a five-year study of the effects of long-continued smoking.

From Time Magazine Archive

To her tender solicitude he owed much of his constant and long-continued activity in all kinds of work.

From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew