Sentence examples for to protract from inspiring English sources

Equally simplistic, the study underscores the economic incentives of lawyers to protract cases through trial.

"We didn't want to protract the sense of instability and insecurity.

Recently the chancellor made clear that he was willing to risk investment in the new green economy to protract the life old way of doing things.

Or maybe if Ferrara wanted to do Zoolander 3. Exasperating though this film can be, Refn shows real visual style and a willingness to protract wordless scenes into a nightmarish state beyond narrative.

Some Palestinian experts say Mr. Arafat thinks it less risky to protract the conflict than to seal a deal that would be perceived as selling out not just Palestinian, but also Arab and Muslim rights.

"Such a pittance of troops as Great Britain and Ireland can supply will only serve to protract the war, to incur fruitless expense and insure disappointment," Burgoyne added in a letter in the collection that will be auctioned beginning next month by Sotheby's in New York.

There isn't much point, as far as I can tell from the reviews I've read and promotions I've seen, to protracting the search for the real Clinton.

Consequently, attention was redirected to protracting the absorption of subcutaneously administered insulin in order to reduce the number of daily injections required.

This would be particularly beneficial when PMCA2 level is reduced and cells are exposed to protracting periods of mild calcium elevations.

A timely application of antiviral drugs combined with a quick implementation of contact reduction measures is required to substantially protract the peak of the epidemic and reduce its height.

After excision, even though a cicatrix is formed, it recurs, bringing with it the cause of death, whereas at the same time, most people, by using no violent methods to attempt the extirpation of the disease but only applying mild medications to soothe it, protract their lives, notwithstanding the disorder, to an extreme old age".