This protracts the process for weeks (or months!), costing hours of lost productivity and hindering speed and agility.
Then when ordered by the judge to produce the documents in question, it protracts the process as much as possible.
JPMorgan had nothing to gain from protracting the acquisition process.
This makes some power failures a surprise, and it protracts the fixing process, as utility workers need to physically identify the place where equipment is damaged.
The goal of this more involved archival research, as with the first two major writing projects I assigned in the fall, is to protract the writing process, moving slowly through research, brainstorming, planning, drafting, and revision in order to give them a sense of how a research project evolves, and the intensive, sometimes long-term grappling that goes into a well-developed argument.
Regarding innate immunity, impaired macrophage functions may protract the infection process, leading to increased pathogen longevity and greater potential for harm to the host.
When you find his behavior upsetting and take him to task you are only protracting the struggle.
In fact, it is among the biggest obstacles thwarting the people to establish a good governance, by protracting the life of such cruel totalitarian regimes.
Yet it is a mistake to succumb: whilst undoubtedly cathartic, biting back only lends legitimacy to the extremist narrative, thereby fueling and protracting the problem.
The three figures known as the Hunters (J. Cameron Barnett, Ruibo Qian and Ben Horner) revel in protracting the deaths of their prey, who are escaped convicts.
