Sentence examples for has become protracted from inspiring English sources

Ms. Taymor's union has already been pursuing an arbitration claim against the "Spider-Man" producers, Michael Cohl and Jeremiah J. Harris, claiming she is owed more than $500,000, but that arbitration proceeding has become protracted.

The loss of life during this period has been even greater than that in 2001 to 2002, and the conflict has become protracted in these areas despite military interventions (Higazi [2013]).

Hearings have become protracted and judges are forced to intervene repeatedly to explain the legal process.

As deaths from heart attacks decline and life expectancy rises, death has become a protracted process for more and more people.

But it has become a protracted and complex process, and leaves colleges in the dark about which funded courses will survive.

The ruling, by the Swiss federal administrative court, threatens to open fresh legal challenges from American prosecutors of the Swiss banking giant UBS in what has become a protracted dispute between the two countries.

"They have let the ball keep rolling so long and the case has become so protracted that it seems unlikely they will turn around now and say this case should not have happened in the first instance," Mr. Rabin said.

Harvard's investigation has been "lawyer-driven," says a faculty member who spoke on condition of anonymity, and has stuck so closely to the letter of government-approved rules for investigating misconduct that the process has become unduly protracted — it lasted three years — and procedurally unfair to the accused.

Syrian insurgents fighting loyalist forces in the northern city of Aleppo seized areas near its airport on Friday, threatening the government's control of a strategically vital supply conduit and scoring a propaganda victory in what has become a protracted battle in Syria's largest metropolis.

For NBC, the shift would bring a partial end to what has become a protracted and somewhat ugly process.

Mr. Putin's remarks on Syria, coming during stops in Germany and France as he began his first foreign trip since reclaiming the Russian presidency, were scrutinized for any hint of a shift in the Russian position on Syria that could help change the course of the conflict, which has become the most protracted and violent of the Arab Spring revolts.