Others, such as Terra Firma Risk Management, a negotiation firm, say the most serious cases seem to be getting more protracted, and hardened kidnappers more patient.
Does Donald Trump, who clearly has an unsteady grasp on the levers of a government he barely understands, and will need all the help he can get to avoid further embarrassing himself on the world stage, really want to get into a protracted political war with one of the most powerful and sophisticated political entities on the planet?
As the population grows, and so the electorate, the process will presumably get more protracted yet.
The debate over constitutional standards and gerrymandering comes after the redistricting committee got into a protracted debate over access to redistricting software.
Tanya Morgan kicked shit off, but I ended up missing them because I got in a protracted argument with the kind folks working the Music Hall doors about whether or not I could bring my friend Braxton in with me.
Irony is too feeble a word for what they actually got: a losing war, protracted for four years and concluded -- with much additional humiliation -- on the same terms that Johnson and Hubert Humphrey had been offering in 1968.
Across the region, ever more people are getting fed up with protracted instability.One of these is Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine's richest man, who is based in Donetsk and is said to employ some 300,000 people.
It is also true that whoever plays this character needs the stamina and breath control of Wagner's Brünnhilde to get through Maggie's protracted opening aria of lust and lamentation without passing out.
In among the positive support for #justiceforLB on Twitter, a clinician got embroiled in a protracted debate around mortality and learning disabled people.
