Sentence examples for have a protracted from inspiring English sources

In parts of Africa we already have a protracted and growing humanitarian disaster.

Still, she said, it helped her and her husband make their own plans for a time when they might have a protracted illness.

"Copper" settles into a cycle of stilted, stagy exposition — there's all that history to explain — punctuated by beatings, shootings and knifings that have a protracted, antique brutality.

In ovarian cancer, for example, it has been shown that response is less likely in patients who have failed the previous treatment after only a short interval compared to those who have a protracted failure-free interval [Gynecol. Oncol. 36 (1990) 207].

"We have a protracted humanitarian crisis in the south where we still have 1 million people displaced because of flooding in the province of Sindh," Bessler said.

You are unlikely to have a protracted civil war once it is over," said the western risk consultant who worked in Benghazi.

Workers at three of the companies had a protracted strike in Queens over the summer, which instigated the talks.

(Shakur's mother, Afeni, had a protracted court battle with the movie's production company over creative control).

"I was born in 1950, and there's a whole bunch of us," said Mr. Macy, who has a protracted nude love scene with Maria Bello in "The Cooler".

And if I have to choose between having a protracted political battle on the one hand, but those folks being hurt or helping those folks and continuing to fight this political battle over the next two years, I will choose the latter.

Elsewhere, Nijinsky and Diaghilev had a protracted duet, during which Diaghilev slithered underneath Nijinsky — so that they were both supine, in an arc, one on top of the other — and rocked him up and down.