In other cases the negotiations are protracted, as they were in the Law of the Sea conferences, which lasted more than a decade.
Simultaneously, the hind legs are protracted so that they can be in jumping posture by the completion of landing.
Scenes of torture are protracted and inventive.
RECESSIONS after financial crises are long and severe, and the subsequent recoveries are protracted.
They have been protracted and hugely complex.
That alone suggests they will be protracted.
The 13,000 American troops in the country are still so busy in the south and east pursuing Taliban forces and hunting for Al Qaeda's leaders that the last thing they want is protracted strife in the west to add to their problems, another American officer said.
The foreign ministers of Thailand and Cambodia began what they said would be protracted talks over a disputed mountaintop temple where soldiers from the two nations have confronted each other this month.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The foreign ministers of Thailand and Cambodia met Monday to begin what they said would be protracted talks over a disputed mountaintop temple where soldiers from both nations have confronted each other since early this month.
