Sentence examples for protracted and expensive from inspiring English sources

That makes appeals against extradition protracted and expensive.

The current system forces the victim to fight a protracted and expensive legal battle.

South Africa cannot remain a viable nation if half its young people are doomed to an early, protracted and expensive death.

Judge Alan Lourie wrote that companies need to be able to introduce products "without fear of unjustified, protracted and expensive litigation".

The natural history of MS is such that disability accrues slowly in the majority of patients and therefore studies examining neuroprotective therapies can be protracted and expensive.

Those plans, along with complications like the high water table under the building, made for a protracted and expensive construction.

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 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.

-- Massive U.S. deployments to faraway lands like Iraq and Afghanistan are expensive, protracted and perceived as American invasions.

They have been protracted and hugely complex.

This struggle was protracted and fierce.