Another longtime critic of commercial activity in schools predicted that the report would encourage state legislatures to act.

Even some longtime critics of the Fed approve of the job the central bank is doing.

Some longtime critics of the fund applauded the Bush administration's stance.

Even longtime critics of Microsoft say the company has made progress.

A longtime critic of the party, he has used his campaign to call for its overhaul.

Still, longtime critics of the process took some solace in it.

He is also a longtime critic of the left.

According to some longtime older critics, there hasn't been this sort of concentrated talent since the late 1950's.

To be sure, to her longtime critics she remains an icon of liberalism.

Even longtime critics of New York's child support policies say the state has made progress in the last three years.