He seeks "to prolong a friendship which summer had almost made an idyll of...
Mere familiarity is not a good reason to prolong a policy that's not working.
Others operate purely on emotion, and he's seen clients hurt themselves financially to prolong a pet's life.
The decision suggests that reclassifications with the potential to prolong a control structure may be subject to strict judicial scrutiny, absent both independent director and minority stockholder approval.
Or are they mischief-making spoilers, looking to prolong a divisive Democratic fight or support a candidate Mr. McCain can beat in November?
On the other hand, the power of medical science to prolong a pope's life almost guarantees periods of paralysis or decline for the church, if not outright disaster.
Governments would not be able to sanction arms shipments if they could be used to prolong a conflict, or be diverted to terrorists groups.
With neither an endorsement nor a wholesale repudiation of the government, the decision seems likely to prolong a battle that has consumed Taiwan for months.
But trying to prolong a visa, change a train ticket, find a hotel room in which to spend an extra night is almost impossible.
You might be able to prolong a singing note in opera, but you can hardly prolong a dancing leap until the orchestra catches up with you.
Clients have complained for years that the practice of billing for each hour worked can encourage law firms to prolong a client's problem rather than solve it.
