Analysts and online executives say the idea may find a market if consumers can overcome their longstanding habit of ignoring anything that appears in a rectangular box toward the top of a Web page.

Another problem for Republican clubs is that Republican candidates in New York have a longstanding habit of not getting elected.

Some of you may continue the longstanding habit of Christians, of adding 'D.V.' to the ends of letters describing what you plan to do.

His goal is clearly to shatter Mr. Leth's nearly superhuman composure, to wrench him out of longstanding habits and techniques and to break down his aesthetic and psychological defenses.

More often, though, the proposals drift away, victims of longstanding habit and the entrenched interests of those who have made the Academy Awards into what they are.

As for Dr. Moskowitz, he is still receiving invitations from drug companies, despite his longstanding habit of spurning them.

Methadone remains the gold standard in treating opiate addiction - especially for heroin users who have longstanding habits and require large doses.

The prior-art shortage can be traced to the software industry's longstanding habit of getting copyright protection for its products instead of patents.

What makes you think we will want to change these longstanding habits seven years from now, in the year - not Twenty Hundred, but - Two Thousand?

I understand that it's a longstanding habit to say that the Islanders suck, but this year they'll wean you off of that slowly but surely.