1.   And public life there means the efforts of oversized and underpaid bureaucracies, each guided day after day by longstanding traditions, methodologies, ambitions and collective goals.

2.   Another similarity is a longstanding tradition of making homemade jams and jellies.

3.   As a nation founded as a safe haven for Jews, there is a longstanding tradition of welcoming immigrants and their assets.

4.   But the plan would require the Teamsters to break from their longstanding tradition of pooling pension benefits from multiple employers and providing benefits uniformly to retirees.

5.   City labor unions have a longstanding tradition of going to the State Legislature for help when they fail to get what they want at the bargaining table.

6.   Even in countries that have shaken off autocratic rule in recent years, women often find their democratic rights sharply curtailed by longstanding discriminatory traditions.

7.   Following a longstanding Scarsdale tradition, his opponent, Ann Janiak, refuses to debate.

8.   For secular consumers, a CD of sacred music can be a short cut to the solace and stability provided by a longstanding tradition.

9.   He says he ignored advice that bloc-voting was a longstanding Lawrence tradition that he would never be able to overcome.

10.   In effect, the administration chucked out the longstanding tradition of browbeating Israelis and Arabs to negotiate, dangling carrots and sticks to make them reach an agreement.