And we do not yet know whether even the intention can survive the transition — which suddenly seems more likely than not — from a quick war of shock and awe to a grinding, protracted struggle, hand to hand and house to house.
Maybe this, as much as an appetite for power, explains the difficulty some artistic directors have letting go of a permanent base (remember the protracted hand-over period between Max Stafford-Clark and Stephen Daldry at the Royal Court in 1993?) But artistic directors - even the great ones - run the risk of stifling the thing they love if they stay in the same place for too long.
Succession at Disney has become a highly managed and careful process since the protracted hand-off from Eisner to Iger in 2005.
And at the end there was a protracted musketeer-style hand grab from Team GB and some tears too as the players walked off.
Taking on our plot for the first time we planted everything we could get hold of and filled every available surface at home with trays of seedlings destined for nothing more than a protracted death at the hands of inclement weather or waking slugs.
However, it enables rapid recruitment of previously atelectatic alveoli, thus resulting in better oxygenation on the one hand, and help avoid oxygen toxicity and protracted volu- and barotrauma on the other hand which are the usual sequel of prolonged ventilation using conventional mode in ARDS.
For us, an election is only the opening broadside in a series of protracted political battles of heavy artillery and hand-to-hand fighting.
And if I have to choose between having a protracted political battle on the one hand, but those folks being hurt or helping those folks and continuing to fight this political battle over the next two years, I will choose the latter.
One problem in the radiation field is that little of the data on hand addresses the problem of protracted exposure.
On the other hand, when the injury is protracted for longer time, (12 weeks) cirrhosis develops and in the absence of ongoing injury there is only partial reversal with remodelling of a micro-nodular to a macro-nodular architecture [ 10].
After four months of protracted disciplinary hearings, he resigned and was handed a three-year ban from all rugby.
