Sentence examples for was so protracted from inspiring English sources

And once social workers were employed, the process of removing them from the job was so protracted and time-consuming that they were left in place.

But the casting process was so protracted that by the time Fontaine got the part, she was thoroughly demoralized.

Indeed the process was so protracted that traces of polytheism remain in the Hebrew Bible, e.g., in Exodus, and especially in Psalms ("There is none like you among the gods, O LORD").

Maybe the Labor Department inquiry into the Penn Specialty case will reveal why this process has been so protracted.

Their time in the studio has been so protracted that even the subjects are out of date.

The fall is so protracted that Alice wonders if and when she will ever reach the bottom.

In Arizona and Ohio, the deaths of the inmates were so protracted and painful that the states began looking for alternative drugs to use instead.

Sometimes her denunciation is so protracted and unmodulated -- as with Yuri Grigorovich, the former longtime Bolshoi director -- that she drowns herself out.

Perhaps the economic crisis that Barack Obama inherited will turn out to be so protracted and severe that it will later seem to be an event equally as controlling of his priorities; let's hope not.

But he said that change could be attributed to the Internet labor shortage, which has been so protracted that recruiters are more actively lobbying workers at traditional companies, where people are less prone to jump at equity-heavy compensation packages.

To the governor -- whose personal foibles and budget-related troubles are so protracted that a Quinnipiac University poll this month found that only 24percentt of the respondents want him re-elected -- the opportunity was simply too rich to resist.