11.   That house still stands as a private residence, but the garden was sacrificed to subdivisions, reflecting the longstanding practice of preserving historic buildings but not their landscapes.

12.   The Bank of New York said that this move is simply part of a longstanding practice of investing in other bank stocks.

13.   The decision was a break with longstanding Pentagon practice.

14.   The government has decided to scrap the longstanding practice of requiring all political prisoners to sign letters in which they renounce their beliefs.

15.   The investigation has put a spotlight on longstanding practices that will surely need revision in the wake of this disaster.

16.   The rules would curtail a longstanding practice that permits developers to build higher buildings in exchange for creating plazas or other public amenities at ground level.

17.   Time and Newsweek each broke a longstanding practice this year and came out with their first double year-end issues.

18.   UBS PaineWebber also halted a longstanding practice in which brokers could cut commissions on transactions for clients, usually absorbing some of the discount themselves.

19.   Calling the collection of political funds a longstanding practice by military-backed predecessors, he disavowed previous veiled threats against the current political establishment.

20.   Chun told the court that collecting political funds from businessmen had been a longstanding practice by his military-backed predecessors.