So the battle over the PARCC contract could be a fairly protracted one, if all the parties in play pursue all of their options.
The effects may be protracted: one study reports ongoing verbal memory decline up to 9 years after left temporal surgery (Rausch et al., 2003), and two others report short-term decline followed by stabilization or recovery after 6 10 years (Alpherts et al., 2006; Andersson-Roswall et al., 2010, 2012).
CEO Todd Greenberg said the NRL integrity unit's investigation into Foran is likely to be a protracted one similar to that which looked into Parramatta's salary cap woes.
We had submitted our offer to acquire Valencia in December 2013 and did not expect that it is a long and protracted one.
He described his time behind bars as "an experience which, if not too protracted, one would not wish to have missed".
This theory led Rodenbeck to speculate that an Iraqi spring would probably have looked more like what happened in Libya: a bloody civil war, perhaps, but not such a protracted one as in Syria.
Guterres said that the UNHCR's strategy had changed in recent months, "when it became clear the conflict would be a protracted one", especially after the failure of the Geneva negotiations.
The protracted blues jam Sex Machine is one of those things that presumably made perfect sense in the late 1960s, like men in kaftans, screwing for peace and the career of Fanny Cradock.
But Lothar Steiling, chief patent counsel at Bayer, who is also president of the German Association of Intellectual Property Experts, said auctions would probably fill a niche only for smaller intellectual property sales, with larger sales remaining subject to protracted one-on-one negotiations.
The battle between McAuliffe's administration and the legislature has been a protracted one, and marked by unexpected obstacles: Democratic state Sen. Phillip Puckett resigned earlier this month, which gave the GOP control of the state Senate and the ability to insert the budget language blocking a potential Medicaid expansion.
