This was major progress in a years-long campaign that I have been part of from the beginning, together with a coalition of parents, advocates, union members, and other elected officials.

This followed a years-long public campaign to award Forsyth a knighthood.

This plus the landing field construction described above prompted local politicians, businessmen and community leaders to intensify their years-long campaign to the Canadian government for an airport.

The advisers opposed to Obama's drone decision leak their memos; the Republican Party follows the path Cheney has blazed and opens a years-long campaign against Obama on the grounds that he and the Democrats are weak, defeatist, etc.

So, while Darral was furiously chopping firewood, I told her about Gelane's years-long campaign to catch that wily old trout in the stream outside Eingaard.

After a years-long campaign of letters, faxes and international flights, he found an unexpected patron in the inner circle of Myanmar's military junta: Gen. Chit Swe, the powerful minister of forestry, who controlled both the country's paltry national park system and its formidable timber industry.

Instead, Hasjarl's war-council must plot years-long campaigns weaponed chiefly with sorcery and envisioning the conquest of Gwaay's Lower Levels a quarter tunnel - or a quarter mushroom field - at a time.

The government's years-long "campaign of public vilification" and its "branding of Padilla as a brazen terrorist" tied to Al Qaeda will make a fair trial impossible for his co-defendants, Jeanne Baker, one of Mr. Hassoun's lawyers, wrote in court papers filed earlier this week.

The MPAA's abortive campaign against individual file-swappers ended years ago, while the RIAA's more widely publicized (and criticized) years-long campaign against P2P swappers ended over a year ago.