How To Use Protract In A Sentence

I have no desire to protract the process.
Similarly, Guinness was unhappy with the protracted walk that Lean expected him to make across the parade ground after his release from the hot box.
Only protracted stagnation of yields brought them to a grudging retreat from farming by decree, and from Lysenko's “agrobiology,” which cast an aura of science over the Stalinist agricultural policy. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Next comes the protracted peroration on the rank of Duke versus the rank of Prince.
To measure latitude, Frémont had two sextants and a reflecting circle, essentially sophisticated protractors; they were used to measure the angle of the sun or the polestar above the horizon.

The protracted dry season has created problems for many sheep producers throughout the agricultural region with paddocks devoid of green grass and pasture.
Of course, the pain associated with birthing was considered entirely natural, while the protraction of pain and suffering associated with foot-binding was altogether an intentional act of the human will.
After protracted consideration the national government had decided to ask a mandate from the people.
The claimant, who had been involved in bitter and protracted partnership disputes relating to the firm of solicitors of which he had formally been a partner, sued the defendant barrister for alleged negligence.
Drug-free community" is an effective vehicle for protracted combat vs drugs.
However, look at that long nose, big barbels hanging off the protracted snout and you know you're after the real thing.
Whether these fast-tracked primaries have rushed the party into the nomination of a candidate that will prove vulnerable in the course of a more protracted and intense campaign is unclear.
For the record: Mister Bigelow has presented a proposed stipulation of agreed facts, always appreciated in protracted cases.
The splint holding my tooth in has given me a slight lisp, that achey feeling in the gum line from the forcing of the tooth and the annoyingly protracted brushing process that I used to hate.
“Turn your head as far as you can to the left,” he said as he pulled out a clear plastic protractor that would measure how much rotation I had in my neck. Chocolate & Vicodin
Though the pathological conditions of hydrophobia and serpent poisoning are by no means parallel, the _rationale_ of the methods employed in opening the emunctories of the skin are the same; and were it not for its powerful protracting effect and depressing action upon the heart, we might perhaps secure valuable aid from jaborandi Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884
Imagine them denuded of even the attenuated r and r release that they are allowed there; imagine their seemingly infinite protraction.
A long-protracted strike dislocated the economy.
NBA Commissioner David Stern used the term "nuclear winter" to describe a decision that could produce a protracted court battle and cost the sport and its fans, arena workers and nearby restaurant staffs the entire season and perhaps beyond. StarTribune.com rss feed
From a humanitarian perspective, Western involvement has stalemated the struggle as Libya barrels down the path towards protracted civil war. Michael Hughes: US on Wrong Side of History in Arab Spring
The main protracted withdrawal symptoms were dyssomnia, dysphoria and pain.
The ruling said Ireland had failed ‘over a protracted period of time’ to establish an adequate and fully operational licensing system for waste disposal.
‘Earnings are likely to be damaged should prices stay at this level for a protracted period,’ he added.
Strategies to speed up the settlement of outstanding rural claims included shortening the project cycle, delegations to commissioners for finalising claims, eliminating protracted negotiations through expropriation, "batching" claims with similar circumstances, consulting with traditional authorities and houses of traditional leaders, and working more closely with other state departments and municipalities. ANC Daily News Briefing
The earlier versions are famously protracted and meditative, pondering unanswerable questions concerning life, death and desire.
Traditional investment banking and stockbroking activity has been muted globally as a result of the European sovereign-debt crisis and concerns about a protracted economic downturn in the U.S. In July, Macquarie said it expected its results for fiscal 2012, which ends March 31, to be better than last year's—if market conditions are not "materially worse. Macquarie May Bid for RBS Aviation Unit
By the quantity of provision which I had consumed I should guess that I had passed three weeks in this journey; and the continual protraction of hope, returning back upon the heart, often wrung bitter drops of despondency and grief from my eyes. Chapter 7
Fungal or mycobacterial infections usually have an indolent and protracted course but can mimic bacterial arthritis.
The protracted photographic session seemed to be coming to an end just before everyone succumbed to frostbite. TICKLED PINK
But there were those who faced a more protracted end: numbed into insensibility after days of clinging to a raft or boat in the stormy north Atlantic.
The angle of pinnation was found by placing a protractor along the central tendon and measuring the angle of an individual fiber to the nearest 0.5 degree.
The struggle would be bitter and protracted.
His office has been _attorned_ to me by _Saving Scylla_, who would doubtless see his _protracted devotion_ rewarded with that _freedom_ from _concerns_ which is the _perfumed ointment_ of _superannuity_. Exodus From The Long Sun
Kelly allegedly pulled out the instrument, described as a protractor or compass, and tried to stab the victim. Undefined
Two pairs of epibranchials are present in adults, one bony and one cartilaginous, compared to a single pair in most other families, and the protractor muscle encompasses both epibranchials.
If it was one of those chameleons they used to sell at the State Fair of Texas, the ones kids used to wear to school like scapulars until they the chameleons died, you had every reason to fear a protracted and terrible vengeance. Fucking terrifying | clusterflock
The protracted climax, to a faint wash of sound, is a tableau in which the motionless dancers slowly levitate.
I immediately remembered our protracted debate on Ayn Rand's meta-ethics on the Association for Systematic Philosphy's listserv set up by the other Wikipedia co-founder, Larry Sanger way back in the... EconLog: Economic Philosophy Archives
Rates had been exceptionally low for a protracted period as the US central bank sought to reignite a very moribund domestic and international economy.
That's the only sign of progress in the protracted battle against the besetting gridlock that bedevils our bodies, minds, souls, and psyches day-in and day-out. John B. Townsend II: Gridlocked: Staring at Brake Lights and Holding First Place
In blennies the palatines are toothless, and the mouth not protractile.
A long-protracted strike dislocated the economy.
Get out some graph paper or maybe a protractor because this may get complicated.
All you have to do is to prove you have suffered ‘unacceptable pain’ over a protracted period and that there is no realistic prospect of your condition improving.
In 1871: "There has been a large increase in the membership, mostly through judiciously conducted protracted meetings and catechization. American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South)
The development of CMV CNS disease is associated with risk factors (T-cell depletion, anti-thymocyte globulin, umbilical cord blood transplantation) that cause severe and protracted T-cell immunodeficiency (8 of 11 cases), a history of recurrent CMV viremia treated with multiple courses of preemptive ganciclovir or foscarnet therapy (11 of 11 cases), and ganciclovir-resistant CMV infection (11 of 11 cases). Naturejobs - All Jobs
Deflection angles of terminal segments relative to the sub-terminal segments were measured to the nearest 2° with a protractor attached to the apparatus after each additional weight was added.
Her washwoman's family consisted of four children, and a husband who blew in gaily once in a while when in need of funds, or when recovering from a protracted spree, which made a few days 'nursing very welcome. In Times Like These
This often made the closure of the exit wound a very protracted event, the track continuing to discharge a small quantity of bloody serum and fragments of necrosed tissue for many weeks. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
On returning to Ujiji after a rather protracted sojourn at Uvira, occasioned by Kannina's not completing his work so quickly as had been anticipated, we found our stock of beads and cloth, which had been left in charge of the Ras-cafila, Sheikh Said, and under the protection of the Beluches and our Wanyamuézi porters, reduced to so low an ebb that everybody felt anxious about our future movements. What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
Use a protractor to set the fully extended blade at 10 [degrees] off vertical.
While we think of this protracted cruelty of the author of his imprisonment, it is some consolation to know that he met with what we may well call a merited retribution. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
After protracted negotiations, Ogden got the deal he wanted.
Accessories for rules are presented in another chapter that describes attachments used with rules such as fences, protractors, gauges, trammels, and carrying cases.
And without some healthy cynicism, these inelegantly protracted negotiations could seriously compromise the prospect of a deal being struck in Durban. Jonathan Wootliff: Good News From Durban
I see perhaps a protracted conflict against various terrorist organizations and nations that harbor them.
We've been in such a hurry for all these years for one main reason - the more the negotiations are protracted, the more difficult they become, which can be easily noticed.
The son of northern French nobility, and a former cleric and Cluniac monk, he became pope in 1088, at a time when the papacy, reeling from a rancorous and protracted power struggle with the emperor of Germany, stood on the brink of overthrow. 'The Crusades'
It can ill-afford to remain simultaneously engaged on two fronts over a protracted period.
In other words, a prudent, asymmetric-thinking enemy manipulates time and space to disperse the greater power's military forces, protracting the conflict and wearing down the will of the orthodox opponent.
But when its owners sued All American Cash Register and TEC America Corp. last July over the glitch, the greengrocery fired the first shot in what some are predicting will be a protracted -- and costly -- legal war over the so-called Year 2000 Bug. Beyond The Year 2000 Bug: A New Wave Of Lawsuits
Sci-fi tends to glamorize laser weapons (pew pew, you're dead), when in reality the experts say getting "shot" with will probably feel more like napalm (* sizzle sizzle*, protracted death). Gizmodo
Roxy was finishing off with a protracted rumba rhythm he'd been experimenting with, a final flourish to bring the whole thing together. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
In the overhead thrower, the shoulder external rotator muscles, scapular retractor muscles, and protractor and depressor muscles are frequently isolated because of weakness.
The City bought the property under eminent domain proceedings after a protracted battle with the owner.
To deprive a successful litigant of interest on his or her legal costs is to encourage the losing side to delay and protract the assessment process.
He was sparingly fed upon weevilled biscuit and vile messes of tallowy rice, and to drink he was given luke-warm water that was often stale, saving that sometimes when the spell of rowing was more than usually protracted the boatswains would thrust lumps of bread sodden in wine into the mouths of the toiling slaves to sustain them. The Sea-Hawk
The protracted tape-recorded inquisition of Markham has only a few diverting moments—for instance, when Kubrick is quizzing the historian about Talleyrand and Napoleon's two-faced police chief, Fouché: How Stanley Kubrick Met His Waterloo
Clearly this approach was not sustainable over a protracted period of time and inevitably British soldiers had to adopt a more vigorous stance.
The struggle would be bitter and protracted.
This can become protracted at holiday times so planning deliveries is even more important. blog comments powered by Disqus Women Grow Business » But It’s Still August! Welcome to Holiday Rush Planning for Small Business
EDE was in charge of the Shaw Conference Centre during their protracted strike and has also come under considerable fire for poor financial management and a top-heavy governance model.
Another role of the scapula involves retraction and protraction along the thoracic wall.
That is, hold the protractor, which is "D" shaped, in the same orientation as the letter "D". Dogsolitude Diary Entry
Muscles necessary for the rapid dorsoventral expansion of the head are composed primarily of fast-twitch fibers while those involved in more tonic contractions such as hyoid protraction have more slow-twitch muscle fibers.
Much of their previous work was either bouncy, drum filled, squawky pop-mania, or simple protracted acoustic meanderings.
Holding the protractor at your desired angle, look up the straight edge of the protractor.
Standard measurements were taken using calipers and a protractor with the median line of the valve mounted horizontally.
Ponyfish have a very protractile mouth, a phenomenon which can be demonstrated by squeezing the head, when the mouth will shoot forward.
In consequence, a nuclear submarine proceeding at quite high speeds for protracted periods could become substantially out of trim.
During the interviews, the students had access to additional papers, pens, protractors, and a calculator for any necessary calculations.
This description would be very difficult to accept without the experience of being submerged in discontinuous cultural complexity over a protracted period of time.
That today the United States accepts these limitations at risk to its interest means that its enemies benefit from advantages they might not otherwise enjoy, including the deliberate protraction of conflict as well as the expansion of the scope of war well beyond its immediate operational zones to regions that seem to have no direct involvement in the war. Between War and Peace
Ingolstadt, my residence there being no longer conducive to my improvements, I thought of returning to my friends and my native town, when an incident happened that protracted my stay. Chapter 4
Yet Makiya always opposed a protracted American military occupation.
Remaining in the transport portfolio would, according to the PDs, leave the Tanaiste enmeshed in protracted union disputes.
This design could not long escape the penetration of the Gothic king, who continued to hold a doubtful, and perhaps a treacherous, correspondence with the rival courts; who protracted, like a dissatisfied mercenary, his languid operations in Thessaly and Epirus, and who soon returned to claim the extravagant reward of his ineffectual services. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Use your protractor to construct an equilateral triangle.
Lundie 2.115 relates an example of protracted gestation of eleven months, in which an anencephalous fetus was born; and Martin of Birmingham describes a similar case of ten and a half months 'duration. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Sorry, I'm aware that the above paragraphs are little more than a protracted and self-pitying whinge, but I needed to get it off my chest.
They sought to wear down the adversary through harassing actions and protracted conflict.
a night-mare in which the objects and the danger are real, and the spell of corporal death appears to be protractible at the pleasure of the persons who preside at your unearthly torments. The Room in the Dragon Volant
This protracted process resulted in a backlog of bodies that were often putrefying by the time they were cremated.
Accidental obscurity or dawdling is one thing, sure, but deliberate protraction and orchestrated ambiguity can be choices, no less elegant when carried off with expertise. Are You Meandering Around a Castle for 200 Pages? Well, Stop That, Suckah!
They accomplish this coordination with proprioceptive feedback through the hypoglossal nerve that disinhibits activation of the jaw depressors when the tongue protractor muscle is activated.
Pen clips, protractors, and jackknives have left hacked shapes to tell people how dull it all was when they sat here.
Nor would I claim to be an "ornithologist", a title which implies scientific knowledge, a capacity for protracted study, an understanding of graphs, figures and statistics, and possibly a doctorate. The Guardian World News
In the overhead thrower, the shoulder external rotator muscles, scapular retractor muscles, and protractor and depressor muscles are frequently isolated because of weakness.
In a full analysis, Christina uses a ruler and protractor to measure the letters and angles.
Set a sliding bevel square to the preferred angle with a protractor, hold the square against the post, and mark it. Then cut along the line with a handsaw
More fundamentally, the protracted power outage demonstrated the anarchic state of the electrical power system as a whole.
Some came armed with T-scales, drawing boards, protractors and compasses.
While I myself cannot get wildly enthusiastic about the possibility of visiting the moon, I do find it a source of constant wonder to be able to cross the Atlantic in sedate luxury, and in 5 hours; 15 years ago, the Atlantic air-crossing was still something of a protracted and uncomfortable adventure. Fifteen Years at the World Bank
Some of the stuff like protractors and compasses I had to design from scratch and I worried about how inaccurate they were.
Those require a different kind of change and we have an appetite for neither its protraction nor its privations. Broken resolutions can be good for you | Hephzibah Anderson
And withdrawing to a designated line would simply embolden the Mexicans to fight on and hence protract the war indefinitely. A Country of Vast Designs
I favour expeditiousness, to clear the path so that our aspirations are not twisted by protracted disputes over acre, rood, and perch.
The manner of his sacking was gruesome enough - a clean sacking turned into a protracted public humiliation for both men.
Even so, some fear that the situation might degenerate into a quagmire in which the rebels resort to protracted guerrilla warfare.
Both often call for travel and protract beyond a day or two. Michele Somerville: December Dilemma: Maccabees vs. The Elves
Think not that I have forgotten thy sometime promises, Though long thou hast protracted thy cruelty, ywis. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III
Routine massage method was applied in control group, manual replacement with the lumbar part in a anteflexed and dorsal protraction condition was applied in treatment group.
And so it was that in Middlesex Street, Whitechapel, in that year of 1853, after a protracted debate, many condemnations of a God who would permit such a child to be born, and a number of drunken rages culminating in beatings of the woman who had produced this particular unfortunate offspring, the child was named John Boleslaus Lachley and reared as a son in a family which had already produced four dowerless sisters. Ripping Time
Achieving an even skin tone is another protracted beauty process that many of us could do without.
Reverse parking into small spaces is also a must as it would not do to keep the purchasers waiting as simple manoeuvres turn into a protracted disaster.
After protracted verbal sparring followed by hand-to-hand combat, Harry defeats Riddle by stabbing the diary.
I should guess that I had passed three weeks in this journey; and the continual protraction of hope, returning back upon the heart, often wrung bitter drops of despondency and grief from my eyes. Chapter 24
Perrin maintained that “there are advantages to cooperating with other countries, not just the source countries, but also other countries along the migrant smuggling chain,” because this would assist Canada in “creating proactive responses to protracted refugee situations.” The Ocean Lady: Rethinking “Illegal” Migration in Canada : Law is Cool
However, any further protraction in the process raises the bar for a successful outcome. Deutsche Börse Holders See NYSE Deal Chances Fade
S. government to act to protect investor interests, highlighting rising concerns around the globe about the protracted budget talks taking place in Washington.
After his average form over the past two years, the protracted histrionics of his exit, and this latest tell-all tome, most fans view him simply as a narcissistic cry-baby who couldn't even take a rollicking from his own manager.
Further protraction of the discussion will not achieve anything.
This marks the first day of what is likely to be a protracted and bitter courtroom battle.
Accessories for rules are presented in another chapter that describes attachments used with rules such as fences, protractors, gauges, trammels, and carrying cases.
But Dr. Jonas enthralled me with a protractor and precalculus. Chocolate & Vicodin
Overall, these data reflect a protracted history of speciation throughout the Pleistocene and Pliocene’ (pp. 1666-1667), and they termed the LPO model ‘a failed paradigm’. Archive 2006-03-01
And city, state, and federal agencies often engage in protracted territorial battles over land rather than expediting development.
We routinely have throwers stretch their pectoralis minor muscle and strengthen the lower trapezius muscle and scapular retractor and protractor muscles.
Therefore spodizators, gesinins, memains, and parazons, be not culpable of dilatory protractions in the apposition of every re-roborating species, but rather let them pullulate and superabound on the tables. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
The relative decline in guerrilla and terror activity has been achieved by curfews and closures, by imprisoning more than two million people in their homes without work or food for protracted periods of time.
Wrasses characteristically have a protractile mouth, cycloid scales, and a single continuous dorsal fin lacking an obvious notch between the soft and spiny portions.
The protractor (3) with a triangular rule is arranged on a board and is fixed on the two sides on the upper part of the compasses through an elastic fixing clip (7).
I found it out quite by accident — a few words dropped into a letter, a corroboration of the fact and further committal, a protracted defence of your position, running through a correspondence of over a year, and, finally, a face-to-face declaration. The Kempton-Wace Letters
This disease is habitual to them both in summer and in winter, and in addition they are very subject to dropsies of a most fatal character; and in summer dysenteries, diarrheas, and protracted quartan fevers frequently seize them, and these diseases when prolonged dispose such constitutions to dropsies, and thus prove fatal. On Airs, Waters, And Places
Singapore * Shell to sell stakes in PCS and TPC to Qatar Petroleum * Qatars first overseas downstream acquisition, more to come (Adds details, background) By time cut its term naphtha offer to $13 a tonne premium, despite sealing a deal Fears industry's comeback may be protracted * Worries linger over huge distillate surplus, contango By Jennifer Tan WN.com - Articles related to Singapore Airlines opens flights to Tokyo's Haneda, will others finally follow?
And, as machine-gun fire is almost entirely indirect fire, the guns must be laid by using map, compass, protractor and clinometer (quadrant), in exactly the same manner as artillery fire is directed. The Emma Gees
It marked the beginning of what has turned out to be a protracted political struggle.
Her melodies match the melancholy mood of her vocal timbre, using protracted, dirge-like lines for an effect that may initially seem haunting, but eventually gets pretty old.
Any interruption in this intermediation process will bring this protracted period of rampant money supply expansion to a conclusion, with enormous consequences.
Dr. Jonas took out a number-two pencil, a ruler, and a protractor to draw lines on my x-rays. Chocolate & Vicodin
Soon global population will level off and then likely fall for a protracted period of time.
No, I wouldn't bet on anything at this point other than this will be a prolonged, protracted and vigorous fight.
Hydrostatic elongation of the tongue involves narrowing of the tongue vertically and consequent lengthening and protraction from the mouth.
I did have some level of anxiety at going underwater for protracted periods.
The importance of projection protraction CAI was introduced. The environment and flow of courseware CAI were discussed. Several problems that should be paid attention to were also pointed out.
In agamids, the homologous muscle also functions to move the tongue forward, assisting the major tongue protractors.
A protracted struggle beckons on the shores of Poyang and China's other big lakes.
No discrimination was observed; the robust young man, with an iron constitution, was, so far as related to food, placed on a par with the poor invalid, debilitated with protracted suffering or dying of inappetency. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale
I immediately remembered our protracted debate on Ayn Rand's meta-ethics on the Association for Systematic Philosphy's listserv (set up by the other Wikipedia co-founder, Larry Sanger) way back in the ... EconLog: May 2007 Archives
I am very sorry, but I am unable to indulge in protracted correspondence with you.
I Saw Ramallah is an intensely lyrical account of the poet's return to his hometown on the West Bank from protracted exile abroad.
But the county's fire chief said he thought the dispute was damaging and could be protracted.
Repopulation during protracted treatment is one reason for tumour persistence after radiotherapy.
Among the instruments shown are compasses, scales, surveying wheels and chains, theodolites, protractors, and quadrants.
I have no desire to protract the process.
Symphony No 3 is a more expansive, more fully developed piece which emerged from a protracted period of study of chant and early polyphony.
His strategy was to protract negotiations until the enemy were exhausted, while assembling the forces necessary to crush them.
Dr. Shoshana Bennett, a clinical psychologist specializing in expecting and new mothers, says they were looking forward to the protracted "babymoon" with their newborns, but "the financial strain has put such unexpected pressure on them. As Economy Slips, New Mothers
And protracted booms promote the most aggressive and most bullish to the top echelons of power.
The protracted rebel war in the north of Uganda has effected many changes.
We are pushed into thinking that illusions must be departures from quite simple-minded physics, as measured with rulers, protractors, and clocks.
He commented that the US economy is poised for recovery, although protracted because of geopolitical factors and trade wars.
And for the Chinese, the longer this protracts, the more difficult it becomes to keep it out of the international incident stage and handle it well.
Though the pathological conditions of hydrophobia and serpent poisoning are by no means parallel, the _rationale_ of the methods employed in opening the emunctories of the skin are the same; and were it not for its powerful protracting effect and depressing action upon the heart, we might perhaps secure valuable aid from jaborandi Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884
We won victory through protracted struggle.
A protractor was used to measure the angle of this line to the transverse line and hence the angle to the apex of the nucellus.
To measure latitude, Frémont had two sextants and a reflecting circle, essentially sophisticated protractors; they were used to measure the angle of the sun or the polestar above the horizon.
Memory may hold on to horrid incidents, but it's a great obliterator of dull, protracted misery, especially if you help it with heavy drinking. Flashman's Lady
Protracted proceedings in a forum that is both remote from and unfamiliar to the claimant can be spared.
At the opening of the Thirty-Fourth Congress the anti-Nebraska men gradually united in supporting Banks for speaker, and after one of the bitterest and most protracted speakership contests in the history of congress, lasting from the 3rd of December 1855 to the 2nd of February 1856, he was chosen on the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
As a result, there is a strong incentive for the less ethically minded lawyer to protract a legal battle by encouraging this tactic. Liz Mandarano: The Worst Thing A Woman Can Do In Divorce Proceedings - The Abuse Of Orders of Protection
I have nothing but praise for Trevor Schmidt's direction and Raymond Spittal's design, but do wonder about the lighting choice for the protracted nude scene.
I also realize that this is the same paper that heroicly published the leaked Pentagon Papers in 1971 after a protracted court battle. Jeanine Molloff: Prosecuting WikiLeaks, Assange, and Free Speech v. Eric Holder and a New Sedition Act
Being locked up for protracted periods with only your own thoughts for company can become torturous.
Advances in the development of these instruments made such calculations easier and more precise, for example: the "course protractor", the "cuadrant", the "octant and the sextant", and the "longitude clock", which was a precision chronometer. Sailing on and on
Since oil accounts for half the Venezuelan government's revenue, it's the prize in a protracted struggle for power.
This study presents the first results of maternal care from birth to weaning in an otariid with a protracted weaning period: the subantarctic fur seal, breeding on Amsterdam Island during the 1995-1996 reproductive season.
He sounded, thought Fromm, unsurprised at so protracted and unusual a collapse of communications. IN LOVE AND WAR
The situation reminds us of fifteenth-century Italy, where casualty-averse mercenary condottieri conducted protracted and nearly bloodless warfare.
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Younger readers will not remember, but that particular industrial dispute was both protracted and bitter; it involved running battles between scores of miners on the one hand and scores of police on the other.
‘After developing the prototype with the help of circular protractors, I improvised the model with assistance from professors of engineering colleges,’ he adds.
After installing the protractors , check the assembly for squareness prior to using the machine.
Lundie relates an example of protracted gestation of eleven months, in which an anencephalous fetus was born; and Martin of Birmingham describes a similar case of ten and a half months 'duration. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
It would take another protracted court action and many years of protest before the Front finally wound down.
They accomplish this coordination with proprioceptive feedback through the hypoglossal nerve that disinhibits activation of the jaw depressors when the tongue protractor muscle is activated.
First, for the insurgent, warfare is always offensive, never defensive; always protracted, never swift.
That's why many antispammers squarely blame the trade group for protracting the junk-email war.
Points went over from angles almost off the protractor that day and the pace and accuracy of their play hit a level hardly seen in any other game this year.
At present, the reform agenda had been derailed by the protracted conflict between the government and the legislative body, he said.
The move - after a protracted sale process lasting 30 months - was welcomed by analysts.
A more effectual means could not have been devised to encourage the enemy and protract the war than to advocate and adhere to their cause, and thus give them “aid and comfort.” A Country of Vast Designs
This takes time and the heads are not the appropriate forum for protracted negotiations.
Those secretaries, servants, and ministers who were able to flatter, amuse and treat her as a woman as well as a monarch were the most successful with her during this period of protracted grief.
Such mathematical protraction excites the studious poker mind of the Wimbledon manager.
Lane's descendants were as prudent as he, saving his compass and its tripod, his brass protractor, his surveyor's chain, brass dividers, the wooden globe, and, of course, every scrap he wrote.
At Heathrow Airport today, an individual later discovered to be a public school teacher was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a compass, a protractor, and a graphical calculator.
Everything, in short, suggests that this period may represent in the individual what was once for a very protracted and relatively stationary period an age of maturity in the remote ancestors of our race, when the young of our species, who were perhaps pygmoid, shifted for themselves independently of further parental aid. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
What he does for a living is intensely private and frustratingly protracted.
Her fingers unzipped the zipper and took out her binder for math along with her calculator, pencil, and protractor.

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