President Obama's meeting with Congressional leaders offered a preview of what is expected to be another protracted showdown over the debt ceiling, Helene Cooper writes.
Prosecutors are now asking judges to keep him in protective custody so that he cannot offend during what is expected to be a protracted legal process.
The president's demand opens what is expected to be a protracted fight between the White House and Congress over spending for the next fiscal year.
Such doubts may be useful in what is expected to be a protracted legal battle over whether population data compiled using sampling can be used in redistricting, the drawing of lines for Congressional and state legislative districts.
It is expected to be a protracted struggle in a country whose traditions include fractious tribes, a certain proclivity for radical Islam and the kind of widespread poverty that can help breed extremism.
Because the Republicans will be picking most of their delegates proportionally this year, instead of winner-take-all, the candidates who are in the top tier now — Mr. Romney, Mr. Paul and Mr. Gingrich — are likely to be competing for each and every delegate in what is expected to be a protracted primary fight.
He has appealed to the troops fighting around the city to block routes where they can to prevent women being moved to Syria at the end of a battle widely expected to be difficult and protracted, but to end in Isis's defeat.
This observation indicates a possible clinical utility of CD40-retargeted Ad-GM-CSF transduction for the induction of a mature T-cell stimulatory phenotype in CML-DC, which may be expected to be stable over protracted periods of time after adoptive transfer.
But as with most diplomatic gatherings these days, the debate and discussion are expected to be dominated by the protracted tragedy of Syria.
Dozens of players, officials and others are expected to be interviewed in coming months, with police warning the investigation is likely to be "protracted".
