The lessons learned during the South African War of 1899-1902 had reinforced the idea that the regular Army was not capable of fighting a prolonged full-scale war without significant assistance; almost all regular units in the United Kingdom had been deployed overseas within four months of the outbreak of hostilities, and the entire pool of reserve manpower had been exhausted in under a year.
That is where Tomlinson finds himself this season, a proud athlete, elite even among elite, fighting to prolong his career.
Despite what confused comrades might have told you, it wasn't the capitalists that started World War One, but the Old Regime: "The Great War was an expression of the decline and fall of the old order fighting to prolong its life rather than of the explosive rise of industrial capitalism bent on imposing its primacy".
If fighting is prolonged, we will lose the harvest".
Dirty fighting, if prolonged, does not necessarily make for good reading.
From here on, the novel alternates between Mohr's life in Shanghai, torn by internal fighting and prolonged Japanese assault and eventual seizure, and Käthe and Eva carrying on their farm life and gradually losing hope.
But if the fighting is prolonged, if Gaddafi does not quit and run, if his more able sons take up his cause, if the intervention makes things worse not better for ordinary people (as in Iraq), if there is no clear-cut win but ongoing low level conflict and resistance (as in Afghanistan), then Arab opinion will turn against the westerners once more.
The Wars of the Roses during the 15th century saw prolonged fighting between the Yorkists and Lancastrians for the control of the English throne.
BAMAKO, Mali Agence France-Pressee) — The leader of the Mali junta has ordered his army "not to prolong" fighting as the rebels tightened their grip over the country's north.
Nor was it the surrealistic contrast of pride and optimism in Egypt and Tunisia juxtaposed with death and destruction next door in Libya, where Qaddafi is fighting ruthlessly to prolong his despotic regime.
