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  • If the conservatives on the Court achieve this long-sought goal, there will be a devastating effect on the composition of classrooms in colleges and universities.

    The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

  • To many religious Americans, this alignment of religion and politics represented a long-sought consummation, an appropriate retort to the excesses of the Sixties.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • It will be heartbreaking if we defeat the right and win our long-sought after reforms, only to see them evaporate.

    Brendan Smith: Are Progressives in Denial About Climate Change? Brendan Smith 2011

  • "It has a lot of weight simply beyond the $4 billion it would raise, being able to say to Democrats on the Hill that we got these guys to go along with one of our long-sought priorities."

    Fresh Downgrade Threat to U.S. Debt Carol E. Lee 2011

  • It will be heartbreaking if we defeat the right and win our long-sought after reforms, only to see them evaporate.

    Brendan Smith: Are Progressives in Denial About Climate Change? Brendan Smith 2011

  • It will be heartbreaking if we defeat the right and win our long-sought after reforms, only to see them evaporate.

    Brendan Smith: Are Progressives in Denial About Climate Change? Brendan Smith 2011

  • Democrats find the tax debate providing a long-sought political advantage..

    Payroll-Tax Rift Throws GOP a Curve Janet Hook 2011

  • Iannucci will tell me little about this long-sought after film, in which Steve Coogan reprises the role of the egotistical monster of a Norwich DJ that he and Iannucci created on Radio 4 nearly 20 years ago and brought to BBC2 a few years later.

    Armando Iannucci: 'Now is not the time for a crap opposition' Stuart Jeffries 2010

  • BRUSSELS—The North Atlantic Treaty Organization agreed Friday to acquire its first fleet of unarmed drones under a long-sought deal that defense officials said would help fill a gap in alliance surveillance capabilities exposed by last year's military campaign in Libya.

    NATO to Acquire First Fleet of Unarmed Drones Adam Entous 2012

  • Talk in Detroit economic-development circles has centered on a shared arena that would spur a long-sought redevelopment of the neighborhood surrounding Joe Louis Arena, a riverfront zone at the entrance to downtown.

    Owner of Two Teams Eyes NBA's Pistons Jeff Bennett 2010

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