Seagull said the transaction would fulfill its longstanding goal of international diversification.

The new strategy moves the US further from its longstanding goal of being able to successfully fight two major regional wars at the same time.

When this Administration took office, our own sense of these longstanding goals was keen.

A longstanding goal of the airline has been to restrain operating costs, the highest in the industry.

He said Chinese leaders reaffirmed that they had a longstanding goal to move toward more flexibility, but did not provide a timetable.

He negotiated foreign policy with other governments that ran counter to longstanding American goals.

What Mr. Li called for was the revival of a longstanding goal.

They say it abandons the Superfund program's longstanding goal, often unattainable, of returning the sites to a natural state.

All of those figures are far short of the longstanding American goal for Iraq: 6,000 megawatts.

While other children wanted to become teachers, little Donna's longstanding goal was to be the first black woman to run a presidential campaign.