Sentence examples for too protracted from inspiring English sources

And even the six weeks Congress took to produce the antiterrorism bill was too protracted in the view of White House officials and administration lawyers.

But the two-year schedule was too protracted to hold the interest of many viewers, says Eddie Hearn, the managing director of Matchroom Sport.In that respect, top-level boxing might learn something from the less glamorous side of the sport.

Seen in what was claimed to be its first professional New York production, mounted by the Bronx Opera Company in the Lovinger Theater at Lehman College on Saturday night, the work readily showed its intrinsic shortcomings: a plot too whimsical for modern tastes, a wayward libretto, a girth too protracted for the frivolity of its material.

He described his time behind bars as "an experience which, if not too protracted, one would not wish to have missed".

Although recent decades have seen an improvement in the time taken to diagnose CH from onset [8], the diagnostic delay for this condition is still too protracted (more than 3 years in the most recent study [6]), as is the number of physicians consulted before arriving at the correct diagnosis (generally at least 3 medical doctors).

They are also protracted.

Then, without too many protracted hugs, we headed back to Brooklyn.

Critics who complain that there are too many protracted songs, and that most of them should be cut are, I'd guess, missing the point.

Yet the strategies are essentially sectoral in nature, and the challenge of "tackling the social and intersectoral determinants of health" has been sidestepped as too political or protracted [ 15].

That is, a reluctance to display too much, after a protracted national conversation, in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, about what does and doesn't constitute sexual misbehavior at work.

Obama's defense budget wisely continues the conventional dominance of the U.S. Army and Marines while making the active forces too small to conduct protracted foreign occupations and counterinsurgency wars.