Sentence examples for protracted from from inspiring English sources

In 2005, thirty years after she first staged "Thomas Lips" in an Austrian gallery (Thomas Lips was a Swiss lover whose androgyny had fascinated her), she revived the performance, protracted from two hours to seven, in the Guggenheim rotunda, as part of a show called "Seven Easy Pieces".

For each trial the shoulder girdle was passively protracted from neutral (i.e. the scapulothoracic joint in neutral) by sliding the Perspex plate supporting the arm on an adjustable table.

Krestinina et al. (2007) found excess cancer in 17,000 members of the civilian population who received protracted exposure from emissions from the Soviet weapons complex also at a higher rate than found in the A-bomb cohort.

Along the American Atlantic coast, the spawning season of mussels is protracted, extending from April into September.

The congress will mark the start of Mr Jiang's protracted withdrawal from politics, but that alone is no reason to expect any big changes in China.

The trauma of a young mother's protracted death from cancer can be exacerbated by the patient's understandable wish to live as long as possible for her family, Dr. Rosenstein added.

During the heyday of her husband's protracted rule, from 1965 to 1986, she was also a disco queen, hitting the floors at gilded international night spots, which, thanks to her, included the roof of the palace she occupied in Manila.

It was then, against the Yankees, when the old Jose Reyes — the dynamic, energetic and influential Jose Reyes — finally returned to form after a protracted recovery from last year's leg injury.

The overall effect is of a desperately protracted skit from a summer replacement variety show of the late 1960's, the kind on which second-tier celebrities showed up to make fun of themselves.

Patricia Duff, whose protracted divorce from the billionaire financier Ronald O. Perelman in 1998 prompted her to become an advocate for divorcing parents, called for the panel to add a litigant representative.

Preliminary data may suggest a more protracted recovery from concussion in high school athletes.