Troubled by soaring health care costs, companies are withdrawing from their longstanding role as providers of medical insurance.

Mariska Hargitay won best actress in a television series for her longstanding role in "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."

Most of the images represent hats, which have a longstanding role as symbols and surrogates of their wearers.

But fewer people realize that civic learning has played a longstanding leading role in higher education as well.

But the overall thrust of the document indicated deep concern over the economic and military aid that the United States provides to Israel and its longstanding role as Israel's sponsor.

But Mr. Thornburgh has been the Adminstration's point man in challenging the American Bar Association over its longstanding role as an evaluator of the qualifications of judicial nominees.

But any law that allows doctors to help patients kill themselves is a profound turnabout from the longstanding medical role of doctors as healers, the professional groups say.

Some also mentioned the longstanding role of African-American pastors in encouraging their members to vote for Democrats.

The official motto of the Supply Corps is "Ready for Sea" - reflecting the Supply Corps' longstanding role in sustaining warfighting.

That year the Kennedy Center called to congratulate Caffè Lena on its longstanding role in America's music history.