How To Use Protracted In A Sentence

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.
The protracted dry season has created problems for many sheep producers throughout the agricultural region with paddocks devoid of green grass and pasture.
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.
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
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 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
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
A long-protracted strike dislocated the economy.
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
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
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.
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.
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
The City bought the property under eminent domain proceedings after a protracted battle with the owner.
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.
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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.
Much of their previous work was either bouncy, drum filled, squawky pop-mania, or simple protracted acoustic meanderings.
In consequence, a nuclear submarine proceeding at quite high speeds for protracted periods could become substantially out of trim.
This description would be very difficult to accept without the experience of being submerged in discontinuous cultural complexity over a protracted period of time.
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
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.
This protracted process resulted in a backlog of bodies that were often putrefying by the time they were cremated.
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
More fundamentally, the protracted power outage demonstrated the anarchic state of the electrical power system as a whole.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
This marks the first day of what is likely to be a protracted and bitter courtroom battle.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
I did have some level of anxiety at going underwater for protracted periods.
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.
Symphony No 3 is a more expansive, more fully developed piece which emerged from a protracted period of study of chant and early polyphony.
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.
He commented that the US economy is poised for recovery, although protracted because of geopolitical factors and trade wars.
We won victory through protracted struggle.
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"
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.
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.
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.
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.
First, for the insurgent, warfare is always offensive, never defensive; always protracted, never swift.
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.
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.
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.
In this current "conjuncture" we can at least get the numbers right, at 50/50, as we continue in the protracted struggle for complete transformation of all unequal power relations in our society and a better life for all. CONTENTS:
As protracted exchange-rate misalignments are a recurrent phenomenon in global currency markets, may we conclude that the ‘euro puzzle’ represents just another incidence of their malfunctioning, a clear-cut market failure?
Women become pregnant very young, recieve insufficient nutrition, and as a result they endure protracted labor resulting in stillborn babies -- and injuries that result in eventual incontinence, social ostracism, and heartbreak. Mwahahahahahaha!
On the one hand, the process itself is protracted and time-consuming.
And yet, 40 percent of us will die after a period of protracted debility and feeble dementia stretching on average for some seven to 10 years.
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.
There follows a protracted period of silence, punctuated with the odd sigh but mostly consisting of concentrated chewing.
He particularly wanted to thank all who canvassed over a protracted period.
All of them bear responsibility for the social disaster created by the protracted war, the destruction of basic democratic rights and the growth of ethnic hatred and communalism.
ObjectiveTo research the influencing factor protracted withdrawal symptom of heroin addicts.
The nerves (one or both) may become bruised at the brim of the obturator foramen by being caught between the pelvis and the body of the fetus in some cases of protracted labor. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
They seemed to favor a protracted, multilateral and legalistic approach to international affairs.
The parrying is the latest chapter in a protracted battle over roughly $26 million in tax increases contained in the budget, including new taxes or increases on taxes on fuel, liquor and tobacco. Bennington Banner Most Viewed
The Iowa caucuses of 2008 were not the end of our long national nightmare about race, but another stage in our protracted national nightmare of piety, “uplift,” and deceptive optimistic windbaggery. VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Christopher Hitchens Unloads On Barack Obama
They're expecting a protracted legal battle there.
No only must Brown suffer the protracted companionship of this foul-mouthed jogger, he must endure it knowing that each of their encounters, once committed to the diary, represents a contribution to the Campbell pension fund.
Sometimes being physically ill or unwell over a protracted period until you're moving over or at least skirting closely along the line into invalidity can bring on a state of melancholy.
Much of the land allocated proved uncultivable - because it was affected by salinity; waterlogged, unleveled or had multiple ownership claims - which led to protracted legal battles. Caroline Gluck: HELPING THE LANDLESS BECOME LANDOWNERS
This was a protracted process, as mother is something of an amateur archivist. Alteration
He may start nitpicking over virtually every script point, insisting on protracted creative colloquies with his director.
When there is a farinaceous sediment in the urine during fever, it indicates a protracted illness. Aphorisms
NOGUCHI: Sharga says he thinks the main outcome is that the delays will simply prolong an already protracted housing crisis. Foreclosures: A Busted System Or Veiled Opportunity?
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
Some attentive press coverage also misses the larger point by focusing on whether the award is collectable, which is certainly an open question as Chevron will pursue protracted appeals both in Ecuador and the United States, and has also made a persuasive fraud case charging that a report favorable to the plaintiffs was covertly written by the plaintiffs' lawyers themselves. Forbes.com: News
The City bought the property under eminent domain proceedings after a protracted battle with the owner.
For me, no venerable spinster hoarded in the Trongate, permitting herself few luxuries during a long protracted life, save a lass and a lanthorn, a parrot, and the invariable baudrons of antiquity. Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)
In Iraq, U.S. forces swiftly defeated the enemy (the war was quick and didn't metastasize) but did not win decisively (a big reason why the military aftermath of Operation Iraqi Freedom has been so protracted). North Korea: The War Game
While the domestic business environment has deteriorated because of the protracted recession, there is no excuse for the failure to pay due wages.
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.
Objective:To observe the efficacy of trazodone in the treatment of protracted withdrawal symptoms of heroin dependence.
Shearer is confident that the Argentine can shrug off the media storm that has surrounded his protracted transfer to Old Trafford, having shown himself to be suitably thick-skinned last term.
We won victory through protracted struggle.
A protracted conflict, deserving in certain ways the label total war, it produced a global struggle between two powerful coalitions. Between War and Peace
My own present church was a church plant more or less birthed after a period of bitter and protracted conflict between the pastor and some board members at his former church.
A panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last August in favor of Jones, finding that the government may not conduct protracted, around-the-clock GPS surveillance without a warrant.
Near-term hurdles for the euro zone include a potential Standard & Poor's downgrade of its member states, possibly as early as this week, and the resumption of Greece's protracted bailout talks with the troika of its international lenders that could clear the way for €130 billion $168.27 billion in fresh aid for the debt-strapped country. Euro Sinks Below $1.28
He must take a strong hand with the "unnamed senior officials" who are again working to box him into a decision-making process that predetermines the outcomes in favor of a protracted war. Derrick Crowe: Delaying an Afghanistan Drawdown Is Political and Policy Suicide
I could have just said that there were lots of other options for GPs these days, but that would have simply protracted the conversation.
We can expect a protracted tug of war, which may drag on until the review deadline draws near.
When his first article appeared (minus about 400 words of filler) under his Sunday name of Darius Danesh, he went into a protracted sulk.
Prolonged, protracted, unalleviated stress is the kind that raises LDL cholesterol as it pumps in the stress hormones that may cause negative changes in the blood vessels. Healing the Female Heart
Even if Gaddafi's forces succeed in checking the advance of rebel forces, and the civil war becomes protracted, it is the home-grown nature of this revolt that contains the ultimate seeds of the destruction of Gaddafi's regime. UK and Libya: Fumbling in the desert | Editorial
Any protracted celebrations were curtailed by the early start to the Derry championship.
S. government to act to protect investor interests, highlighting rising concerns around the globe about the protracted budget talks taking place in Washington.
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 mid-'90's. Jimbo and Me, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
By 1807 the protracted war between Britain and Napoleonic France had reached a stalemate.
George's final chapters amount to an eloquent but protracted peroration, liberally laced with philosophical speculation.
protracted negotiations
She had seen again and again the misery of girls with an unreckoned child, and again and again she had seen the septicaemia, the protracted poisoned deaths of girls who underwent the lethal curettage of crochet hooks and wires. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
For all the apparent permanence, within a protracted, geological time-scale, sandstone is in fact quite quick to change.
The highlight of her reign of terror: The now-infamous "Saving Private Ryan" interpretive dance, part of a longer sequence, assembled to celebrate nominated film scores, which The Post's reviewer described as a "hapless, protracted gaffe. Lists: The Academy Awards' worst-ever musical numbers
After the winter solstice, and at the time when the zephyr usually begins to blow, severe winterly storms out of season, with much northerly wind, snow, continued and copious rains; the sky tempestuous and clouded; these things were protracted, and did not remit until the equinox. Of The Epidemics
This is a remarkably candid self-assessment from a legendarily prickly man of whom his own ex-wife once acerbically observed: ‘His self-regard was easily punctured and his reaction was protracted and troublesome.’
Federal Court decisions in two cases stemming from the protracted lockout are expected next week.
The effects of x-irradiation on bone growth were studied in pairs of rats during protracted parabiosis involving vascular anastomosis.
What was looming was the protracted constitutional wrangle over Lloyd-George's budget and the House of Lords.

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