Sentence examples for a protracted exercise from inspiring English sources

He concluded that "Venus" was "a protracted exercise in the obvious.

The return of PiL has proved a protracted exercise in not giving the people what they want.

Strengthening the role of any putative state to take on its enabling role and establish governance mechanisms will be a protracted, incremental exercise, one likely to take decades to reach a basic level of functioning [ 46- 49], with no guarantee that it will happen [ 11].

A protracted silence.

What followed was a protracted negotiation.

A protracted three-way bidding war ensued.

Instead, a protracted trench war is likely to lie ahead.

Spaniards have not only been living under a protracted recession.

He is a loud agitation in a protracted dead calm.

Gingrich instead set out a strategy for a protracted campaign.

The end of Communism is a protracted process.