Sentence examples for have been protracted from inspiring English sources
They have been protracted and hugely complex.
It's understood that the chair and some governors had been resisting pressure to leave their positions, and talks over resolving the stand-off with Hefce have been protracted.
Efforts to fulfil the coalition pledge to enshrine the 0.7% commitment in law have been protracted because of backbench Tory attempts to kill the private member's bill brought by the former Lib Dem cabinet minister Michael Moore.
Negotiations are understood to have been protracted, but in the end Redpath stood firm and Tindall last weekend conceded: "I would like to stay at Gloucester but it's difficult, it's down to the club".
He told MPs: "The alternative to any payments made would have been protracted and extremely expensive litigation in an uncertain legal environment in which the government could not be certain that it would be able to defend departments and the security and intelligence agencies without compromising national security.
The two battles have been protracted and excruciatingly close, and each has revolved around the subtler points of counting and statistics -- involving the Florida ballots in one case and a handful of ambiguous detections within giant particle-counting devices in the other.
This blow-up has been protracted, however, with lawsuits in both Texas and New York.
Fortunately for her fans, Ms. Freni's farewell has been protracted, as well.
That the decision to replace Mr. Russert has been protracted is not just a reflection of the degree to which he made "Meet the Press" his own.
Rhidian Hughes, chief executive of the Voluntary Organisations Disability Group: "The transforming care programme has been protracted to say the very least.
(As it happened, the terms of the consent decree were identical to those the Attorney General had insisted upon three months earlier; in characteristic Wallkill fashion, the process had been protracted with nothing gained but legal expenses and embarrassment).
