Many (including, as today's reaction in court indicated, the Oland family) predicted an acquittal - while others saw the messy, protracted case as yet another instance of a small coterie of Maritime elites shielding their own from the law.
[Its member nations] disagree on certain issues, [but they] set goals and reach agreements following negotiations that are in some instances complicated and protracted.
Victims of the world's most protracted modern refugee crisis, the Palestinians, for instance, do not want a new nationality because it would erase their right of return.
Another writer might describe the same experience differently - for instance, as the excitation of the protracted creative moment.
The settlement is one of several similar agreements reached between the Obama administration and federally recognised tribes, in the hope of improving relations between the US and native Americans, and resolving instances of what Mr Holder called "protracted and burdensome litigation".
For instance, with reduced conditioning and exercise tolerance over protracted periods of time, there can be impairment in the MS patient's ability to execute their ADLs.
For instance, diarrheagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) are major pathogens associated with both acute and protracted bacterial diarrhoea worldwide, even so E. coli strains isolated from diarrhoeal stool samples are still considered commensal flora [ 9].
Akerman presented monumentally composed, meticulously observed, raptly protracted images of a woman's domestic routine — Jeanne (Delphine Seyrig) preparing cutlets in her kitchen, for instance.
While there is no recent trend of outright regression, there are few instances of major improvement, and the global financial crisis resulting in a sharp and possibly protracted recession could threaten democracy in some parts of the world.The crisis threatens to undermine the credibility of free-market capitalism; a broken financial system may discredit Western values in general.
For instance, Ally might have to pay more for its financing if investors become spooked or tire of protracted litigation.
But there was also criticism over the size of the clawbacks – just 5% in some instances – and the number of former bankers involved in the clawback which was announced on Monday following protracted negotiations with those involved.
