It's a long, protracted process.
Cruising around town, the suspension feels quite plush, more so than the car's planted stance might suggest, but when pressed through a protracted series of curves on State Route 1 north of San Francisco, it firmed up nicely.
On that unexpected note, the fiery Mr. Maddox, who also convened a raucous news conference Thursday on the courthouse steps to press his case, promised to revive a protracted drama that once bitterly divided New Yorkers along racial lines but had recently seemed to have been put to rest.
Ordinarily, this would be viewed as hawkish signal, but given the BoE only stated last week (and King repeated in today's press conference) that it "was appropriate to look through the temporary, albeit protracted, period of above-target inflation" there is little prospect of them doing anything about it.
That the decision to replace Mr. Russert has been protracted is not just a reflection of the degree to which he made "Meet the Press" his own.
"Pentagon Seeks Ideas on Combating Terrorism," read the press release, saying the U.S. "specifically needs help in combating terrorism... conducting protracted operations in remote areas, and developing countermeasures to weapons of mass destruction," and soliciting ideas from any Tom, Dick & Goofball for possible defense contracts.
"He did not give up his position, which opened possibilities for protracted internal strife between clans internal to the Ifoghas", Baz Lecocq, a history professor at Ghent University in Belgium, tells Think Africa Press.
They are also protracted.
Conflicts are becoming more protracted.
