On occasions, the episodes can be protracted, with Leyla embarking on what she calls her "Alice in Wonderland" interludes.
But several media analysts suggested the standoff might be protracted, with predictions ranging from about 10 days to as long as six weeks.
(As it happened, the terms of the consent decree were identical to those the Attorney General had insisted upon three months earlier; in characteristic Wallkill fashion, the process had been protracted with nothing gained but legal expenses and embarrassment).
Just when all passion is spent with the orgasmic euphoria of those best actor and actress awards, the evening is protracted with a long, long anti-climactic speech from the person awarded the Academy Fellowship.
Our findings demonstrate that the epidemiological transition in Antananarivo has been protracted, with a pronounced mortality crisis in the mid-1980s followed by a very rapid decline in child mortality that was not supported by sustained economic growth or improved nutrition.
However, the nature of the condition meant that the diagnostic assessment was going to be protracted with turn-around time for many endocrine tests in excess of two weeks.
Norovirus infections in hospitals and nursing homes are associated with high attack rates (median 50%, range 9 78%) and may be protracted, with a mean duration of 16 days (range 3 44) and 19 days (range 6 92) in nursing homes and hospitals, respectively, according to one systematic review [ 17].
Wound healing was protracted and a secondary infection with S. aureus was treated with linezolid.
This blow-up has been protracted, however, with lawsuits in both Texas and New York.
Most of the songs are protracted vamps, with a limited range of notes dancing on an extended single line.
