It asserted that the demotion was the result of longstanding difficulties with the professor's chairmanship, not the speech.

The team operated as the Brooklyn Americans during the 1941-42 season before suspending operations in 1942 due to the twin strains of World War II and longstanding financial difficulties.

These problems reflect both the longstanding difficulties of interchurch cooperation and the more recent decline in the mainline Protestant denominations that have been the pillars of the council.

CompTox is researching ways to address several longstanding difficulties with managing the safety of chemicals, particularly in assessing chemicals for potential risk to human health and the environment.

While it solves several problems in the company's current approach to grading mutual fund performance, several longstanding difficulties will remain - and the new system will create some of its own.

Ehrlich's 606th experiment worked; however, the phrase, with its reliance on magic that defies good sense, has now come to mean "a quick fix to a longstanding difficulty."

Paring the company's offerings may solve some longstanding practical difficulties.

The high court in Lausanne, in a 2006 ruling, granted an anonymous individual with longstanding psychiatric difficulties the right to end his own life.

So if and when the stock market boom wanes, the city will be left with the same longstanding financial difficulties.

The new movie, it is said, will tie up a great many loose threads and resolve some longstanding difficulties, but let's not hold our breath.