Sentence examples for drawn out for from inspiring English sources

That McKinnon's nightmare lasted an entire decade demonstrates that unfair extraditions will inevitably be drawn out for long periods.

In the Philippines, cases can be drawn out for so long, through so many appeals, that the risk of prosecution does not provide an effective deterrent to corruption.

Many ardent advocates of intervention in Libya when U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 was debated are now surprised that the operation has drawn out for this long.

British officials have been telling reporters for days that the military operation may be drawn out for a variety of military and political reasons.

While stressing that any final say will be up to the judge, they expressed concern that a process that Ms. Byron-Marasek has already drawn out for more than a year will encounter further delays.

It appears that the government is trying to drag the case on past June elections, Mr. Arnauts said, and "there is a real danger that this could be drawn out for years".

One afternoon, I was sitting under the mango tree with Massaquoi and a nine-year-old boy whom she had been trying to draw out for more than two weeks, without success.

In 1934 Fortune magazine featured the Syndicate in a cover story and singled Nancy Drew out for particular attention: "Nancy is the greatest phenomenon among all the fifty-centers.

The personality however, Bannon says, was drawn out of her sheer need for Beebo to exist.

For much of the young audience, myself included, this approach has drawn out appreciation for genres that you once thought belonged only on an AM radio segue.

It wasn't drawn out enough for us to get invested.