Sentence examples for it a protracted from inspiring English sources

And if you're tempted to use trial and error to crack its puzzles, be warned that the sheer number of inventory items and illogical quirks make it a protracted, painstaking process.

With the three main parties likely to disagree on how the presidential office should be tweaked, and who should fill it, a protracted round of squabbling might ensue.Given that Pakistan has one or two other matters in need of attention including a mounting economic crisis and a spiralling Taliban insurgency bickering over the presidency would be inadvisable.

Its members seek to undermine the market-state by turning its own technological achievements against it in a protracted worldwide war, the ultimate goal of which is to create a Sharia-based "terror-state" in the form of a new caliphate.

It's a protracted death watch, in which the title character is told shortly after his entrance: "You are going to die in an hour and a half.

Similarly, contemporary composers and librettists like Robert Aldridge and Herschel Garfein may have introduced a new American work that despite its merit musically and dramatically, will have some music critics reviewing it as a protracted musical rather than grand opera.

Some preliminary funding was available to those who made it through a protracted, competitive process.

But that makes it, at its heart, a protracted romantic comedy, and SATC suffers from being bound by the still-pretty-conventional constraints of the genre.

"It's an important slowdown but it's not a very deep slowdown, it's more a protracted slowdown".

If the Affordable Care Act is disrupted and Congress has to fix the system, it will force a protracted a public debate where all of the GOP's unpopular ideas about healthcare are front and center.

Without getting rude about it, Turnbull is enjoying a protracted honeymoon.

It's like watching a protracted chess game, told in messages from consorts and smash cuts from Mary's camp to Elizabeth's castle.