His seemingly neutral stance convinced Mr. Allende that he was an officer who could be relied on to observe the Chilean military's century-long tradition of loyalty to civilian government.

Rather than develop a peculiarly urban form of housing, housing authorities in this country have preferred on the whole to continue a century-long tradition of suburban housing form.

It is difficult to see where all this is leading, but it seems that a century-long tradition of avant-gardism is undergoing a change.

With no successors, a century-long tradition came to an end.

The school is known for its repeated success in national engineering design competitions and its century-long tradition of aggrandized celebrations surrounding Saint Patrick's Day.

On the other side, due to at least a century-long tradition and experience of administrative leadership, the Finnish elite saw itself as the inherent natural power in the Grand Duchy.

Over a hundred years of intermittent social war were to pass before these latecomers, educated in a century-long tradition of rising lesser social groups, abandoned their hopes.

On the North Frisian isles Biikebrennen has a century-long tradition.

At the time, the bankers, appalled at the prospect of breaching their century-long tradition of secrecy, resisted.

Kakinada Anchorage Port has a century-long tradition.