The caucuses may also have prolonged the contest well into the spring.The main beneficiary is Mr Kerry.
The Opposition were not to be put down in this way, and therefore prolonged the contest; Ministers fled from the scene, ashamed of the conduct of their own supporters, of which they themselves at last so felt the disgrace, that one of them compelled the reporters to withdraw, in order that no record might be given to the public.
The former world number one briefly prolonged the contest by saving two match points, but could only guide a drop shot tamely into the net on the third to end the Murray demolition job.
Legal cases, already filed and scheduled for filing on Monday, may well prolong the contest, possibly for weeks.
At one point she incited a war between Herod and his Arab neighbors the Nabateans, ordering her commander in the region to prolong the contest as long as possible.
On MSNBC, Tim Russert predicted that John McCain, who had bypassed Iowa and ended up in fifth, would use Mr. Bush's victory in Iowa to urge voters in New Hampshire "to give me a chance" and prolong the contest among the front-runners.
Don't have prolonged contact.
An incorrigible gossip, Herzen cannot resist describing the scene in which Nicholas engages his equally iron-willed daughter in a staring contest so prolonged that nearby courtiers begin to panic.
She hedged her praise somewhat by suggesting she was going with Mr. Gingrich to prolong the Republican contest — in other words, to head off the inevitability of Mitt Romney's coronation should he win handily in South Carolina.
While the legal alligators in Florida fought over the last shreds of the presidential race, another contest almost as close and almost as prolonged came to a more dignified conclusion in Washington state, in the opposite corner of the country.
