Sentence examples similar to protracted request from inspiring English sources
Because the files were buried in an archive, only retrievable through protracted freedom of information requests.
Few people expect that the Pentagon will emerge from what are expected to be protracted budget negotiations in Congress with all of its requests intact, given the threat of mandatory spending cuts that have acted as a brake on military spending.
Quick says he wasn't present but having read his officers' statements, he is aware of "fairly protracted discussions" between an officer and the serjeant over the request to search a parliamentary office.
Andronikos II, facing imminent defeat at the hands of his grandson and co-emperor Andronikos III in a protracted civil war, was distrustful of his own guard, and had requested the assistance of Michael Shishman.
WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department said on Wednesday evening that it would not immediately comply with a congressional request to hand over President Trump's tax returns, setting up a protracted legal battle between two branches of government.
Getting a driver's license, applying for a passport, requesting a telephone line: These and other mundane activities all required protracted dealings with an officialdom that demanded contacts, bribes and subservience in exchange for its grudging consent.
They are also protracted.
Conflicts are becoming more protracted.
It invited intimate, protracted viewing.
He had protracted fevers.
