According to the 2015 Humanitarian Assistance report: "Two thirds (66%) of international humanitarian assistance continues to go to long-term recipients such as Syria, Somalia and Pakistan, as crises are protracted or disasters recur in the same places year-on-year".
The transfer of programme supervision and ARV procurement roles as well as corresponding budgets was protracted and took time to resolve.
Fortunately for her fans, Ms. Freni's farewell has been protracted, as well.
"But there is clear evidence that as the process is protracted, particularly in Bahrain, that the Iranians are looking for ways to exploit it and create problems".
When it came, the end was as brutal as the saga had been protracted.
Another glossary entry reads: "Fireflakes: the stars; as transitory as snowflakes only their transitoriness is protracted".
Care of young is protracted, extending for as long as six months, among the longest for birds.
The negotiations, which will be pursued as well as military intervention, are likely to be protracted, and complicated by the fact that only a fraction of Mali's northern ethnic groups are Tuaregs, not all of whom want independence, the official added.
In other cases the negotiations are protracted, as they were in the Law of the Sea conferences, which lasted more than a decade.
The commission's terse rejection of the proposal made by Cyprus, which currently holds the rotating E.U. presidency, was yet another sign that the hostilities are likely to be protracted as countries including Britain and Sweden call for even deeper cuts.
