Sentence examples for As protracted from inspiring English sources
In a world of conflict, confrontation, deadlocks and dead ends, few crises are as protracted as the Israeli-Palestinian impasse.
Unless one of the candidates delivers a series of early victories, the nominating contest could be as protracted as the Democratic primary in 2008.
New Jersey even had a nail-biter of a congressional race that may be as protracted as the electoral ugliness in Florida.
But it turned out that Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb had chosen this game to return from a slump that had seemed just as protracted as Pennington's injury.
"How do you wean an economy off of this easy money policy, which was never meant to be as protracted as it has become?" said Edward Marrinan, the head of macro credit strategy at RBS Securities.
"Now if ethics pops up, Torricelli can say that he has been investigated and exonerated and Treffinger can't say the same if this investigation is as protracted as most federal investigations tend to be," said David Rebovich, a political scientist at Rider University.
Few life events are as overwhelming as a protracted breakup after a long and close relationship, so take advantage of your literacy and write things out.
Fortunately for her fans, Ms. Freni's farewell has been protracted, as well.
Its skitter of fireworks, as ingenious (and protracted) as any Updike has arranged, lights up the darkness over territory won in a lifelong literary engagement.
In South Kordofan and Blue Nile, the army faced a rebellion by the SPLM-North (the Sudanese branch of South Sudan's ruling party), which had the potential to become as entrenched and protracted as the Darfur conflict.
TV has always been built on ritual — same Bat time, same Bat channel — and as technology began to disrupt that linear order of things, other rites have emerged, none is as powerful or protracted as the increasingly baroque television farewell.
