Sentence examples for since protracted from inspiring English sources

Since protracted strikes by farmers last year, they have been a thorn in the side of Mrs. Kirchner and her husband, Néstor Kirchner, the former president and current leader of the Peronist bloc.

Bruce has been in charge at Birmingham for little over two weeks since protracted efforts began to part him from his former employees, Crystal Palace, and install him as the man in charge at St Andrews.

Any delays would have implications for the costs of the study, since protracted fieldwork and uncertainties about gaining permission would add significantly to the unanticipated costs of securing interviewers in the field, as well as the administration costs of extending contract deadlines.

Since a protracted winless streak dropped Woods from the top world ranking, three Europeans — Luke Donald, Lee Westwood and Kaymer — have ascended to No. 1.

The N.B.A. has not lost games to a labor standoff since 1998, when a protracted lockout reduced the season to 50 games.

Still, to make one's life all about a harm, since that is what protracted litigation would have done, seems to me a sacrifice that morality does not demand.

Sierra Leone has experienced political instability since the late 1960s, but protracted armed conflict began in 1991 when the Revolutionary United Front tried to topple the constitutionally elected government by launching a guerrilla war from neighbouring Liberia.

The possibility that the nerve becomes unloaded when the shoulder is protracted is unlikely since it had been found that protraction itself causes some median nerve stretch.

Khazali was freed this month from the US detention centre Camp Cropper, in western Baghdad, further raising expectations that Britain's most protracted hostage ordeal since Terry Waite was captured in Beirut 25 years ago would soon end.

Speculation had been building for weeks that the central bankers would nudge interest rates upward today for the first time in 10 years amid evidence that Japan's economy, the world's second largest, is in a sustainable recovery from its worst period of protracted economic weakness since the end of World War II.

This population cohort is of particular interest in terms of wellbeing because of its high political activism during the first intifada, and because it has endured a steady economic decline, increasing political constraints, and protracted political violence since then.