Sentence examples for a protracted state from inspiring English sources

This treatment, rather than killing disseminated metastatic cells, should induce a protracted state of dormancy and prevent overt metastases.

Interestingly, dormancy of DTCs in the bone marrow may depend on the activation of tumor growth factor-beta signaling and p38 activation, p53 induction, and ERK inhibition in D-HEp3 cells, indicating that microenvironment-derived signals that impinge on stress signaling pathways might be sufficient to induce a protracted state of cellular tumor dormancy [ 8].

The country remains in a protracted state of chaos with two governments fighting each other, while Isis militants have gained a toehold in the growing security vacuum.

Demonetization, as it is referred to here, has thrown Indians rich and poor into a protracted state of confusion and frustration.

The result of December's annual meeting of Rangers International Football Club shareholders was an endorsement of his credentials and he might not have anticipated such a protracted state of upheaval.

The key elements of this kind of scenario are all too common: an adult daughter who dwells near her mother is living in what feels like a protracted state of servitude, a thralldom from which she cannot be released except through her mother's disappointment or death.

And while Mr. Romney is now counting more than ever on superior organization and planning to pull him through what is shaping up to be a protracted state-by-state battle for delegates, he continues to fight the perception among some voters that he, like the operation working to elect him, is a triumph of political engineering over passion and authenticity.

But when this protracted state of narrative lassitude suddenly shifts, "Pirates" brings in enough story line for several movies.

Before flying to South Carolina on Sunday, Mr. Obama's appearance at Ebenezer Baptist in Atlanta offered a glimpse into the next phase of the campaign, which almost certainly is shaping up to be a protracted state-by-state fight.

And after a protracted court battle, state officials have won permission to take Cookie from the Flikshtein home and place her in an animal rescue program at the Detroit Zoo.

After nine years in operation, the Speaking Rock -- operated by the Tigua Indian tribe -- was ordered closed on Monday night after the United States Supreme Court refused to grant a stay to let the 70,000-square-foot casino remain in operation while tribal leaders fight a protracted legal battle with state authorities who want the casino shut down.