Sentence examples for protracted as it from inspiring English sources

Analysts warned that the process is likely to be protracted, as it was when Barclays bought the country's largest retail lender Absa for £2.9bn in 2005.

"How do you wean an economy off of this easy money policy, which was never meant to be as protracted as it has become?" said Edward Marrinan, the head of macro credit strategy at RBS Securities.

The flatworm incident (protracted as it was) marks the first time Darwin is captured explicitly analyzing the zoological affinities of a species he has collected.

But all of the Texas nominees were heavily vetted by the White House before they even made it to the Judiciary Committee, and the committee's review process ― as protracted as it may be ― doesn't prevent Cornyn and Cruz from turning in their blue slips to signal they want their nominees to move.

Fortunately for her fans, Ms. Freni's farewell has been protracted, as well.

Its first half proceeds with such breathtaking dispatch and economy, taking us from the outbreak of war through the destruction of the Old South and ending with Scarlett's famous "As God as my witness" declaration, that the second half seems a bit protracted, concentrating as it does on the unhappy domestic life of Scarlett and Rhett.

First to five matches wins and the only controls you have at your disposal are forward and reverse, making each engagement either so fast it's over in seconds or oddly protracted, as you both dance around each other repeatedly failing to deliver the elusive death blow.

Its skitter of fireworks, as ingenious (and protracted) as any Updike has arranged, lights up the darkness over territory won in a lifelong literary engagement.

But it turned out that Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb had chosen this game to return from a slump that had seemed just as protracted as Pennington's injury.

In a world of conflict, confrontation, deadlocks and dead ends, few crises are as protracted as the Israeli-Palestinian impasse.

Among other things, he studied journalism at Texas Tech in an undergraduate career as protracted as some of his stories.