long-standing debate
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflong-standinganddebate
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long-standing
adjective
uk/ˌlɒŋˈstæn.dɪŋ/us/ˌlɑːŋˈstæn.dɪŋ/
having existed for a ...
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debate
noun
uk/dɪˈbeɪt/us/dɪˈbeɪt/
(a) serious discussion of a subject in which many people ...
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Lyons also turns his attention to pronouns and to thelong-standingdebateas to their relation to definite articles.
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A final implication concerns thelong-standingdebateover the possibility of sticky nominal wages.
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The distinction is related to along-standingdebatein the literature on clitics.
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The latter observation is the source of thelong-standingdebateon growth versus distribution.
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This paper considers thelong-standingdebatein the field of translation concerning whether texts should be fully acculturated into the target system or should retain traces of their foreign origin.
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These relationships shed light on thelong-standingdebateover the extent of the trade-off between environmental progress and economic success - a question of particular interest in the developing world.
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We shall be particularly interested in giving some answer to thelong-standingdebateon whether wage or price rigidities make a valid case for activist countercyclical policies.
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I say finally, as this is along-standingdebate.
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There is along-standingdebateabout whether the standard of living of working-class people rose or declined during the industrial revolution.
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My aim is to have concrete solutions capable of gathering the support required for the conclusion of thislong-standingdebate.
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There has been along-standingdebateon which no consensus exists.
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Nutrition has also been a subject for debate today, and it has been along-standingdebateover recent months and years.
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There is along-standingdebateon this.
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However, the ambiguous wording resulted in along-standingdebateabout the amount of knowledge required to establish command responsibility.
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The stability-diversity debate is along-standingdebateabout whether more diverse ecological networks are also more stable.
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He knows well that that is a long-standing debating trick.
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Ethical intuitionists could respond by pointing to numerous long-standing debates in philosophy and science.
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