Sentence examples for from the protracted from inspiring English sources

A 1981 letter to a friend shows he was still smarting from the protracted campaign he had waged 14 years earlier to get an American Express card.

Taking a lesson from the protracted trial of Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague -- two years and running, with no end in sight -- Chalabi says that he has tried to set up rules of procedure that will keep Hussein from turning the trial into political theater.

"Whatever Mother Nature gives us," said Mr. Davis, noting the corn's leaves curling from the protracted heat and little rain, "that's what we have to be satisfied with".

Its prediction underlines the biggest puzzle to emerge from the protracted downturn: Why, when the economy is flatlining, is the number of people out of work falling?

Welker has withdrawn from the protracted legal debate for control of the family trust, distressed at the way it was proceeding, while dealing with her own divorce.

When extended to everything from the protracted suffering of a dying woman to repetitive jokes about a suspect's body odor, that indulgent style doesn't exactly hurry the plot along.

Evidence from some countries confirmed the protracted epidemiological polarisation (32, 38).

Nor does it explain why, even though each high-profile victim means another heap of reputational damage, as it knows from the painfully protracted case of Caroline Criado-Perez who became the victim of abuse after having the nerve to campaign to get a woman on a banknote.

How much does science really gain from the current protracted publication process, with reviewers stringently enforcing the journal's quest for impact, and authors dutifully performing long lists of additional experiments to satisfy reviewers?

As expensive as a settlement could be for the big banks, industry lobbyists in Washington privately say that they are eager to put the issue behind them, especially given the public relations fallout from a protracted fight with the government.

Many of his large extended family have also been forcibly displaced from Sudan by the protracted and bloody civil war in that country.