long-standing friend

A long-standing friend of Hugh's since the campaign days, he acts as his chief adviser.

This becomes more important with increasing age, when people can expect to lose long-standing friends at an ever-increasing rate.

This 'credit with the Queen' also proved personally profitable to her long-standing friends.

Smith was impressed with Stirling's seamanship and became a long-standing friend.

Alan, she learned over the lunch she had prepared for the two men, was a long-standing friend of Simon's, although, unlike him, he wasn't married.

Player and Charles are long-standing friends.

Janet Wong, a former dancer with the company and long-standing friend of Jones's, is associate artistic director.

A long-standing friend of the School, he was a socially committed man of exemplary intellect, integrity and vision.

Critchley was a long-standing friend of Michael Heseltine, having met him first at preparatory school.

Her mother, Vasiliki, continues to run the bar that she bought from long-standing friend Dida, at the end of season one.

Another artist who became a long-standing friend was Rodrigo Moynihan and each painted the other's portrait.

Ripcord Hulse, an ace pilot, was a long-standing friend of the Swifts.

In particular, what of Bahrain - a long-standing friend of Britain whose strategic importance has, if anything, grown over time?

The show continues to be produced by Phil Swern, Blackburn's long-standing friend.

Another important influence on Larkin was his long-standing friend Kingsley Amis.

It was preceded by a single from The Wedding Present's long-standing friends, This Poison!

Cronyism is partiality to long-standing friends, especially by appointing them to positions of authority, regardless of their qualifications.

His last recording, Friendship, was with trumpet master Clark Terry, the two long-standing friends in duet and quartet.

He was a long-standing friend and colleague of Ragnar Granit and John Eccles.

His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend, Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine.

When Hilda's long-standing friend Dolly Wallis asked Adams about her health, he answered her with medical terms she "did not understand".

A collection of notes recording conversations with Mahler's long-standing friend Siegfried Lipiner is understood to have once existed among her papers.

"Lord Chadlington and David Cameron are long-standing friends and there is no suggestion whatsoever of any conflict of interest or financial gain."

Alan was survived by various family members, including his late brother's widow, her daughter and her daughter's husband and their three children, and by many long-standing friends.

According to the game's comic tie-in "Night of Genesis", she is also a long-standing friend of Tenkai Nankobo.