"You should never sacrifice long-term considerations for short-term gain," she said.

"Decisions on investment are being made on medium- and long-term economic considerations," he said.

Natural selection takes no account of long-term considerations.

This adds a long-term consideration of risk to short-term choices.

These decisions are in turn dictated by long-term strategic considerations.

The critics' main concern is the perceivable lack of long-term considerations.

The shares were all chosen with long-term considerations uppermost.

It is primarily such long-term considerations which have led the Bank to adopt a particular approach to the issuing and selling of new government securities.

It does not separate matters of urgency from long-term considerations.

And one of the problems here is that it appears extraordinarily difficult to juggle several long-term considerations at once.