"Torture me, and I couldn't tell you why that's not been a longstanding practice," he said.

Screaming pursuit of a sensational event is a longstanding practice in the news media.

By longstanding practice, scientific reports carry only a list of authors.

Instead, that fight pitted longstanding practice against the new science of sanitation and public health.

But spontaneous gesture drawing is also a longstanding practice in Asia.

And it called into doubt the state's longstanding practice of letting schools grade their own test papers.

But this year he introduced them to a change in a longstanding practice: the men will not have to pay anyone to get those jobs.

"We only announce grants that are made as a matter of longstanding practice," he said.

A longstanding practice under which some schools agree to offer the same student virtually identical financial aid.

Boeing maintains the payments were legal and made according to a longstanding practice that the Government had known about.