After that nonbinding agreement failed to achieve reductions in the gas emissions, countries began the protracted talks leading to the binding commitments outlined in the Kyoto accord in 1997.
Kangxi ordered another expedition to Albazin the following year and began a protracted siege.
He also began the protracted process of restoring the sacred shrines of Amon, which had been severely damaged during his father's rule.
A mix of separatist Ukrainian rebels and Russian forces, seizing cities in eastern Ukraine, then began a protracted war with the government, a conflict that has killed nearly 10,000 people and still continues.
But, on the third day of his three-week trial and just before Ukip leader Nigel Farrage was to give evidence against him, Wise began a protracted round of discussions with his legal team.
When Yugoslavia began its protracted disintegration in 1991, precipitating the latest round of Balkan wars, the West's instincts were those of Neville Chamberlain on Czechoslovakia in 1938: these were conflicts "in a faraway country" involving people "of whom we know nothing".
Churchwell shows that the Hall-Mills case, in which a 34-year-old mother-of-two and her married lover, an Episcopal minister, were found shot through the head in a field outside New Brunswick, was a murder whose lurid coverage exploded into print at the very moment Fitzgerald began his protracted struggle with the novel.
So began a protracted series of court appearances - with the former president often been seen in the dock in an upright stretcher wearing his trademark sunglasses.
As time passed, Todd became increasing violent and paranoid, and in September 2003 he was arrested and began a protracted legal battle that culminated with a sentence of life in prison for assault with a dangerous weapon (a hypodermic needle) and kidnapping.
Mr. Lhota also took an aggressive approach with unions, a stance he will almost certainly reprise as the transportation authority begins a protracted round of contract negotiations next year.
