long-standing

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The Executive Office of the Board of Supervisors said in a statement that it maintains a “long-standing commitment to strong oversight.”

From Los Angeles Times

It acknowledged that the issue is the subject of a "long-standing dispute" dating back to Vanuatu's independence.

From Barron's

After ten years of gathering and studying data, an international team of physicists that included researchers from Rutgers has overturned a long-standing idea about a mysterious type of particle.

From Science Daily

The Bornean orangutan’s SSP, meanwhile, was created in February as part of a long-standing breeding recommendation because Kalim, the female, had not successfully conceived in the past.

From Los Angeles Times

After Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Germany dropped a long-standing pacifist tradition shaped by its dark World War II past and started ramping up spending to overhaul the armed forces.

From Barron's