The collaboration of the art world with the beauty industry has long proved an irresistible combination.

And Germany's central bank, the Bundesbank, has long proved its commitment to keeping inflation low.

The affinities of tongue worms have long proved controversial.

But Medicaid cuts have long proved unpopular with state legislators - and not just with Democrats.

The volumes are written in a romantic manner, and contain many particulars which sober criticism has long proved to go false.

In reading, where progress has long proved elusive for urban and suburban districts alike, results were similar.

The lawyers for Stringer maintain that medical science has long proved otherwise.

There are hundreds more that have long proved their friendly uses to people and animals.

But others are people with an entrepreneurial bent, whose experience in black-market trade with the West has long proved a route to prosperity.

Still, the politics of abortion has long proved treacherous, particularly for those who stray very far from the middle ground of public opinion.