Sentence examples for protracted drag from inspiring English sources

Charlie Crane, a strategist at Victory SBSF Capital Management, which oversees $4 billion, said investors were acting as if the war was "not going to be a protracted drag on economic activity.

But the outside world eventually lost interest after the withdrawal of Soviet forces, while the country's protracted civil war dragged on.

Many young doctors head to Australia and elsewhere overseas, and increasing numbers say they want to go abroad as the protracted junior doctors dispute has dragged on.

It also has a way of encouraging the potential buyers to "behave". That is, avoid putting onerous terms in the deal or they will drag you through a protracted process.

Instead of dragging Palestinian society into protracted civil war, Abbas must leave office and most urgently work to re-create Fatah as a national opposition party and an alternative governing body to the inexperienced and unsure Hamas.

The IMF warned that a "protracted" government shutdown would be a sharp drag on U.S. growth.

AOL Time Warner said it swung back to a profit in the first quarter on strength in its movie and cable TV businesses, but protracted weakness at its music and America Online units dragged on revenue and cash flow.

By 1994, the county had lost $1.5 billion on the derivatives deal and declared bankruptcy, dragging most of Wall Street into protracted litigation.

The suit is likely to drag on for years, prolonging Microsoft's already protracted legal problems.

But if the battle becomes protracted and many civilians are harmed, Iraq's resistance may stiffen, dragging out the campaign and arousing world opinion.

From the American fallacy that election fraud is something that only happens in countries like Iran or the Ukraine, to the painfully protracted Senate race in Minnesota that no Democrat would ever be allowed to drag out like Norm Coleman did.