What is "longtime"

Usage examples of "longtime".

Its leader was Philip Berrigan, a longtime veteran of peaceful demonstrations.

As the longtime manager of Bitterroot, she knew better than anyone that the complex was as safe as technology, caution, and human ingenuity could make it.

Bush friends at the White House was Mary Matalin, 51, Queen of the Republican Sound Bite and the outspoken longtime communications expert for the Bushes going back nearly two decades.

Lou Calabrese, longtime girlfriend of the new groom, has also yet to issue a public statement .

Only William Cecil, her longtime advisor, was sure enough of his welcome to interrupt the intimate talk between the two childhood friends.

Aiken convened a conference on automatic computing at Harvard, cosponsored by his longtime patron, the US.

Pistoia, which was a Ghibelline city conquered by Florence, Prato was a longtime Florentine ally whose relations with the larger city were close and harmonious.

Their handclasp held, and their mutual knowledge of her longtime regard for him lent the moment an intimacy that was present whenever they met.

Otherwise he would never best a longtime member of La Justicia, as he would have to do to be accepted.

Although emaciated and a longtime sufferer from tuberculosis, Kolbe gave away most of his meager rations to other prisoners.

Indeed, as the twentieth century approached its end --an event that would almost exactly coincide with my seventieth birthday--I had the impression, as a longtime warrior against the political leftism I embraced in my thirties and the liberationism in which it expressed itself culturally, and as a more recent soldier in the fight against the anti-Americanism of the Right, that some kind of peace was at hand.

In no region is the credo more religiously followed than South Florida, which has become so urbanized and perilous that tourists stay away by the millions, and longtime residents bail out in droves.

And the longtime status of skateboarders as an oppressed ethnic group means that by now all of them are escape artists of some degree.

Kelian to rest on his, but I had vacillated for some time between trying to write a novel with a Svanetian setting, which might not be very popular in English-speaking countries, or indulging my longtime fascination with the American Indian to write something about my adopted country.

His body had been found by his security chief, General al Hez, and his longtime personal physician, Dr.