Even at 93 and in ill health, Redstone can still win a protracted boardroom battle with another media executive – this time, it happened to be his protege.
Mrs. bin Ladin, who is separated from her husband, calls the book an expurgated memoir because she has changed some royal names, withheld many details to spare the feelings of people she remains in touch with and, not least, she says, because she is still involved in a protracted divorce battle and a fight for her children's inheritance.
So it was, the morning after a late preseason loss to Washington featuring ragged quarterbacking by young Sanchez, four turnovers, a broken foot for linebacker Calvin Pace, lousy officiating and Revis still off-island in a protracted contract holdout; the defensive coaches critiqued the film in Pettine's office.
Still, there are considerable obstacles to a protracted nominating battle.
El Salvador, the most densely-populated state on the mainland of the Americas, is a small and highly-industrialised country that has recovered from a protracted civil war, but still suffers from its aftermath in terms of a divided society.
But, still, my position was that German unification should be a protracted process.
"We have a protracted humanitarian crisis in the south where we still have 1 million people displaced because of flooding in the province of Sindh," Bessler said.
But that makes it, at its heart, a protracted romantic comedy, and SATC suffers from being bound by the still-pretty-conventional constraints of the genre.
If Mr. Weiner's seat is preserved, he would quite likely still face a protracted battle to retain it.
President Obama and McChrystal met for the first time last week aboard Air Force One and I think we can safely assume that they discussed the feasibility of sending such a large number of U.S. troops to the region when we are still fighting a protracted war in Iraq.
