The third, and most protracted, psychological tussle begins the moment the new CEO takes over.
As redevelopment sagas go, the story of the Grange ranks among the most protracted.
Closer to home, even after the most protracted recession of modern times, Cameron still has a fighting chance of victory in next year's general election.
Most informants described how the protracted time period had offered leaders the opportunity to reflect on their experiences of facilitating change with the first cohorts of units and to use the reflections to improve implementation with the later cohorts.
We are in the most protracted economic crisis in modern times; the economy is still 3.1 per cent below the pre-Lehman Brothers crash peak, and analysts warn that an unprecedented triple-dip recession is approaching.
ending one of the most protracted transfer sagas in recent times.
Shallow warm-water marine invertebrates show the most protracted and greatest extinctions during this time.
At the time, it was the fiercest and most protracted battle seen in Europe since 1945, and Vukovar was the first major European town to be entirely destroyed since the Second World War.
At the time Variety called it "one of the most protracted negotiations in memory," and then it was settled by the following January.
In fact, the project has been in an indeterminate state for so long that it has been the subject of at least two books, hundreds of editorials and a pair of documentary films, including last summer's "Cape Spin" -- described by The New York Times as a "tragicomic" look at one of the nation's most protracted energy infrastructure battles.
Indeed, this has been one of the most protracted resignations in recent memory; Mr. Kan first promised to resign in June, but then tried to prolong his time in office by vowing to pass disaster-related bills first.
