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He had been a long-serving sailor, and all his life had done everything by the clock.

White House spokesman said Washington condemned the killing of Ahmad Wali Karzai, who was shot dead by his long-serving head of security.

The referendum might have become a protest vote against the long-serving taoiseach.

Indeed, it seems something of a model board, with an independent chairman and a good mix of long-serving and new directors.

His brother, Lance, a long-serving employee of FedEx, was one of those accused of shooting at the police.

Still, taking over from a long serving company founder is never easy, and Mr. Lu has challenges ahead of him.

ONCE upon a time Britain had a long-serving Labour prime minister, one who had won four general elections.

The Italian spirit emerged with "fabulous" Fabio, the long serving " il president" of the MG Car Club Italia, meeting the convoy.

In the capital, Sana'a, placard-wielding protesters called for removal of the long-serving president, Ali Abdullah Saleh.

After weeks of speculation, Yuri Luzhkov, the long-serving mayor of Moscow, was sacked by President Dmitry Medvedev.

But Mr Putin has also kept in place his liberal economic team, including Alexei Kudrin, the long-serving finance minister.

The Russians tend to gloss over the fact that in many of those countries, long-serving ruling parties have fallen.

Michael D Higgins is a published poet, a former university lecturer and a long-serving member of the Irish parliament.

And in recent weeks, the long-serving princes who headed the Saudi navy and air force were replaced by professional soldiers.

But many critics argue that the result of long-serving dictators in the Middle East has been stunted growth for their countries' economies.

In St Lucia John Broughton, a British commissioner, was charged with assault after a tiff with a long-serving superintendent.

Theses can often be accepted without question by long-serving members of an organisation.

Compared with existing technologies, the utility model has advantages of small noise, long serving life, etc.

The main sticking point is Israel's intransigence over the release of 450 long-serving prisoners.

Yu Bo's long-serving head waitress, Xiao Huang, explains every dish as it arrives.

On Wednesday night the university summarily fired Mr Paterno and Graham Spanier, its long-serving president.

Rarely do long-serving strong men make a habit of nurturing successors with ambition and talent.

Cerritos has a tradition of powerful, long-serving city managers, to whom local politicians frequently defer.

Paul McGuinness, who looks after the youth team, is another former player who came back to swell the ranks of our long-serving staff.

Meanwhile, Thailand's long-serving king was taken to hospital on September 19th with a fever.

The prime minister, Meles Zenawi, has replaced several long-serving ministers with younger men.

Kazakhstan's long-serving president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, called a parliamentary election for January.

And it was Medvedev, say various sources, who proposed replacing, a string of long-serving regional governors.

Yet this is no ordinary slump of the type familiar to long-serving governments in other democracies.

well-proportioned, high out put, stable quality, wide applicable range, long serving life.

The scheme aims to reward long-serving officers with consistent good performance.

WHEN Suharto, Indonesia's long-serving dictator, fell in 1998 the very integrity of the country seemed in doubt.

Final-salary, or defined-benefit (DB), schemes are in place for long-serving workers.

The Global Hawk will finally replace the long-serving U-2 spy plane in 2015, a U. S. Air Force official told reporters Aug.

Hence, in a lot of constituencies , when a long serving incumbent is replaced, there is non-cooperation and what is worst sabotage.

she is bustling about all day long , serving the people.

By 1993 he was deputy prime minister and heir to Mahathir Mohamad, the country's long-serving leader.

a long-serving district board member