On Thursday evening the ministers agreed to prolong the blacklisting of pro-Russian separatist leaders from March until September, to add new names to the blacklist by next week, and asked the European commission to look into broadening the economic and financial sanctions against Russia imposed last July.
He added: "More and more people think it is some kind of attempt to prolong the agony for Mr Blair facing possible war crimes charges".
"Any departure from this carefully crafted compromise will undoubtedly reduce support for it in the House and prolong the expiration of these intelligence tools, and I urge the Senate to pass the USA Freedom Act as is and without any further delay," Schiff said on Monday.
That would prolong a divisive fight in the so-called "culture wars" that moderate Republicans fear have tarnished the party's reputation in recent years.
But the election was, in effect, a referendum on whether to give his office extraordinary powers that would significantly change Turkish democracy and prolong his reign as the country's most powerful politician.
Kabila's opponents believe he wants to prolong his mandate by making the presidential and parliamentary elections contingent upon a new electoral roll, following a census across the vast country due to begin this year.
In 2011, USAid administrator Rajiv Shah warned that the aid industry "is full of incentives designed to prolong our efforts rather than reduce them or enable transitions" and said his agency would no longer be satisfied with "writing big cheques to big contractors and calling it development".
"There's a strong bipartisan coalition ready to slam the door shut on this latest attempt to prolong the dragnet and strip out new rules on transparency from the USA Freedom Act".
Not until turning 40 do you really acknowledge your own mortality and want to prolong your life and its quality.
At Chequers, Thatcher personally confronted Gorbachev and protested that the Soviet Union was meddling in British matters and would help to prolong the strike by giving the cash.
Maybe there would be a few tweaks here or there to ease the pain and prolong things a few years at a time, but the health insurance system would mostly go on as it was.
