Sentence examples for protracted infrastructure from inspiring English sources

For UNICEF itself, strategic planning for the transition from relief through recovery to development was compromised by the transaction costs involved in protracted infrastructure work and a related lack of capacity available to the Country Office.

In fact, the project has been in an indeterminate state for so long that it has been the subject of at least two books, hundreds of editorials and a pair of documentary films, including last summer's "Cape Spin" -- described by The New York Times as a "tragicomic" look at one of the nation's most protracted energy infrastructure battles.

The systemic lack of capacity on the islands, including limited service infrastructure and protracted delays in the processing of asylum applications has relegated tens of thousands of distress migrants to abysmal living circumstances in an apparently indefinite limbo of legal and material uncertainty.

The Wafa Humanitarian Organization, which is financed by wealthy Arabs and several Middle Eastern states, is based in the Afghan city of Kandahar and has specialized in rebuilding roads and infrastructure destroyed in the protracted Afghan wars.

It was seen to "dither" on big economic and infrastructure issues during its first two years, made large education budget cuts, and had protracted industrial disputes with paramedics, firefighters, nurses and teachers.

On May 21st Ruth Kelly, the minister for communities and local government, proposed streamlining both.At present big infrastructure projects are considered by public inquiries, which give local people the opportunity to object but often prove protracted.

A protracted silence.

They are also protracted.

Conflicts are becoming more protracted.

He had protracted fevers.

It invited intimate, protracted viewing.