Sentence examples for that lengthened from inspiring English sources

He further angered the union by bypassing the collective-bargaining process with a new policy that lengthened one of the shortest school days in the nation.

After this year's election, a local newspaper editorial called for a review of the size of the representative town meeting, leading to letters to the editor that lengthened the debate.

Liston was presumed invincible and the greenhorn, fresh-faced challenger was an unprecedented 8-1 underdodds odds that lengthened when, at the weigh-in, Clay's apparent hysterics had doctors pronouncing him traumatised by fear.

The Times investigation found that Goldman's warehouse subsidiary moved large amounts of aluminum among its warehouses daily, a process that lengthened the storage time and increased the premium that was added to the basic price of aluminum.

The decision also threw out other rules that lengthened the residency requirement for newly registered voters, banned distributing absentee ballots by fax or email and sharply restricted the locations and times at which municipal voters, many of them Milwaukee blacks, could cast absentee ballots in person.

Except for the night he cold-cocked Victor Ortiz, Mayweather has never been a committed one-shot closer (although Ricky Hatton might disagree), preferring attritional pain, and Alvarez seemed prepared to soak up the string of jabs in the eighth that lengthened the American's lead to uncatchable – except by knockout.

Accessory glands, providing fluids that lengthen the life of the sperm, open into the vasa deferentia.

But Joan Claybrook, the president of Public Citizen, a watchdog group, said that lengthening the maximum work shift was a mistake.

A child could have told them that lengthening the contracts would increase the risk and open up more uncertainty.

As expected, Russia's lower house of Parliament gave overwhelming final approval Friday to a change in the Constitution that lengthens the presidency to six years from four.

In Germany, the industrial giants DaimlerChrysler and Siemens recently muscled their unions into signing contracts that lengthen work hours without increasing pay.