long-standing issue

collocation in English

meaningsoflong-standingandissue

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long-standing
adjective
uk
/ˌlɒŋˈstæn.dɪŋ/us
/ˌlɑːŋˈstæn.dɪŋ/
having existed for a ...
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issue
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɪʃ.uː/us
/ˈɪʃ.uː/
a subject or problem that people are thinking and ...
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This is along-standingissueand it arouses understandable emotions.
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This is along-standingissuewhich the previous government failed to resolve.
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In our view, there is no single solution to thislong-standingissue.
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This has been along-standingissue.
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This is an old andlong-standingissue.
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All present at that meeting agreed that it was a complex andlong-standingissueto which a solution must be found, although no simple solution is available.
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Thelong-standingissuethat has been raised with us relates to whether private nurseries are treated in the same way as other nurseries in terms of council tax.
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This was part of along-standingissuewith the counties and state.
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Local governance has been along-standingissuein the territory.
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Another significantlong-standingissueon which the school has commented include private coaching or tuition, which has allegedly created a culture that has been regarded as undesirable.
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Emerging technologies may address long-standing issues in sleep and dream research.
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I want to refer to the larger, long-standing issues of the middle east.
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Long-standing issues such as the problem of free riders and the risk of moral hazard must be addressed in that context.
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The inquiry had a wide remit and addressed complex and long-standing issues.
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Of particular significance are the measures relating to contaminated lands and abandoned mines, and any provisions to deal with these long-standing issues must be welcomed.
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We do not just have questions—we have answers and solutions to long-standing issues of land, the environment, housing and prosperity in an area with some 50,000 people.
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On the other hand, many countries with consistent levels of diversity experience long-standing issues of integrating minorities.
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While the focus on texting while driving is laudable, it has failed to address long-standing issues.
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Some of these involved long-standing issues of media coverage of the developing world and unbalanced flows of media influence.
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