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								It might even mean reconsidering the long-existing strategy of guaranteeing progressive votes to all and any Democrats on every Election Day to avoid worse horrors. Bernard Weisberger: Onward Wisconsin Bernard Weisberger 2011 
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								With a long-existing pattern of social and professional discrimination against Mustached Americans, AMI behavioral economists sought to better understand which top-performing metropolitan areas provide the most nourishing opportunities and livable communities for people of Mustached American descent. Dr. Abraham Froman: AMI Seeks to Reward American Cities Embracing Mustached American Culture Dr. Abraham Froman 2011 
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								Hitler slapped a new label on long-existing hatred but he did not invent it. Berlinski's Wisdom 2010 
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								This is why it gets so silly for U.S. liberals to keep using the term “Likud” to describe the long-existing hawk consensus in Israel. 
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								He took pains to point out that most of the present roads in California, like roads everywhere in the world, were laid out to follow long-existing paths and trails, which had probably been traveled upon for centuries. In The Shadow of The Cypress Thomas Steinbeck 2010 
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								He took pains to point out that most of the present roads in California, like roads everywhere in the world, were laid out to follow long-existing paths and trails, which had probably been traveled upon for centuries. In The Shadow of The Cypress Thomas Steinbeck 2010 
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								I wanted to avoid being caught in the long-existing rivalry between the Rockefeller moderates and Goldwater conservatives. COURAGE AND CONSEQUENCE KARL ROVE 2010 
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								It quickly became clear to her that this anger was not a temporary function of seeing the sleeping man, but the delayed manifestation of a much more profound and long-existing anger that she had kept buried deep in her soul for a very long time. Boing Boing 2008 
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								I wanted to avoid being caught in the long-existing rivalry between the Rockefeller moderates and Goldwater conservatives. COURAGE AND CONSEQUENCE KARL ROVE 2010 
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								Buchanan failed to deal well with long-existing tensions in the US. 
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