And even the six weeks Congress took to produce the antiterrorism bill was too protracted in the view of White House officials and administration lawyers.
The two-year cycle of formative research reported here was in itself viewed as protracted by stakeholders eager for feedback, necessitating the need for interim cycles of 'key issues' being fed back, based, due to the time constraints, on preliminary analysis.
Biological and cultural perspectives are presented through two prevailing models: one views plant domestication as a protracted, unconscious evolutionary mutualistic (noncentric) process.
Unfortunately, his explanation of skinhead hatred as mere insanity feels like a cop-out, and protracted stock-footage sequences strain to connect a wider view of British unrest to the intimate story.
"My view is that years and years of uncertainty because of a protracted, ill-defined renegotiation of our place in Europe is not in the national interest because it hits growth and jobs".
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.
Many of the stories significant enough to survive history's winnowing fan were about events so huge and traumatic that they became pillars of our world view and self-understanding: stories about great floods, fires, volcanic eruptions, deadly landslides, protracted wars, catastrophic plagues and famines and more.
Never mind that he took a gamble with the UK's future, lost his bet and then opted to retire from what seem likely to be protracted and unpleasant consequences; in media terms he has been able more or less to recede from view.
Some justices may be positioning themselves for this spot -- knowing that whoever is nominated would probably face a protracted, partisan Senate hearing in which he or she would be expected to explain any extreme points of view.
On Page 471 of a 510-page narrative, when the denouement ought to be coming into view, Mr. Carter is writing "and still the endless night stretched before him" about Eddie's protracted sleuthing efforts.
