Use "protract" in a sentence

1. They’re both of an age that has shared the vicissitudes of the Three Day Week, the Winter of Discontent and New Labour's protracted birth pangs amid Thatcher's dose of social realism, but the horizons on view throughout their shared histories have been very different

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2. teaching contributions are not protracted or do not

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3. It was now close to the end of April and we were due to go back into the front line this time for a protracted stay as we moved up I noticed for the first time some old graves off to our left on the corner of a woods

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4. Holland, settling down for a long and protracted call, was forced to use all his wiles and persuasive ways as he explained the reasons for his request

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5. breakfast was a protracted meal, to which the "children" came down

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6. During the protracted truce the formation of our lines completely changed, and nightly, the troops closed in, drawing the cordon tighter

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7. Wood‘s enormous talents have ―suffered‖ a recent set back, his ―denial‖ is merely defensive posturing common among many successful athletes whose skills have diminished and are no longer able to perform on a level many have grown accustomed or who simply find themselves in the throes of a protracted slump

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8. The report gave me the impression Nigel would try to avoid a protracted court battle over the third CD

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9. Tucker had the financial resources to withstand a long legal siege, but I thought it only fair that I make the other members of the band aware of the repercussions of a protracted court battle

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10. Chofsky laid out Terry’s plan for a protracted legal battle that would have shut down your cash flow for the next three years, and you asked him what you could do to get the deal done

11. “Don’t you see it John? The case is watertight against me, I can’t let my family and friends go through with such a protracted case as this, the bank will suffer from the bad publicity too

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12. nor a protracted process; earnestness is the only condition of

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13. Q: Can I avoid this protracted battle with my mind?

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14. repetitive and protracted, while the way of Yoga is deliberate

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15. There were no protracted

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16. Obviously, the decline was protracted over centuries

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17. 1835 The USRCS joined other military services in the protracted Seminole Indian wars

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18. They heard a low mournful sound, slow and protracted

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19. often causes a more painful and protracted mourning period for the family

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20. His rehabilitation treatment went on for a protracted period until he was able to be discharged with medication to keep him calmed down

21. The transformation of the inner man is often an intense and protracted struggle

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22. The good and bad sides of the force duke it out in a protracted and violent series of battles where we are not really sure who is going to win, though eventually the good guys come through in the end

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23. next few centuries, we waged a protracted war with the organism, killing it in order to pave the

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24. Finally, after a protracted wait, Marsellus spoke to his friend

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25. After relaying protracted often heated negotiations, the satellites reported a brilliant flash that could only be the detonation of a hyper drive

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26. There was a protracted silence as all three of them looked at each other

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27. small victory in this protracted affair

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28. Even Yamamoto, the architect of Pearl Harbour, knew that Japan could not win a protracted war and had hoped for a compromise peace with his country’s great Pacific rival

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29. Certainly the inexperienced forces that took part in Torch were fortunate that the French did not put up protracted resistance

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30. Hitler saw the Channel as Britain's salvation, not his own failure to plan for a protracted war

31. But if the Germans chose to fight in the rugged Italian terrain, they might provoke a protracted campaign that would probably require the Allies to increase the resources in a theatre relegated by the Combined Chiefs to subsidiary importance

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32. Thankfully, such a sordid and protracted imbroglio could be avoided; however, it was questionable why a member of the local government would conduct business with an as-yet-unidentified individual at a rather secluded bed-and-breakfast

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33. America’s will or cripple the navy, virtually gauranteed a bloody, protracted affair

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34. protracted period of time (meaning years), have a body mass index or BMI of more than

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35. At least in that respect, the protracted wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had taught the wrong lessons to too many people about the proper place of drones in the American military arsenal

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36. In one of his films there was a protracted struggle while Cary Grant aided by his leading lady killed a Russian agent

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37. Kierd then launched a retaliatory expedition and, last we heard, were still in the middle of a protracted siege of Narad�s capital

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38. After a protracted discussion, they agreed with his plan on one condition

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39. iteration, and that the revisions become, if not always less deep, at any rate less protracted

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40. Hence, when engaged in a protracted process,

41. protracted sabbatical would soon end, and that devoting himself to spreading his knowledge

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42. Bernhardt was stoical –she knew she had no choice– but she had a protracted

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43. On to a journey as tiresome but not as protracted as the one of two decades

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44. How can you have a corrupt political system if there are no issues you can successfully lie about for any protracted amount of time, eh? If a politician is found out to be corrupt they should be fired

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45. In both England and America: the middle class is already been half-destroyed by a steady, protracted, systematic attack by the rich that is now over 100 years old

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46. Because they were the only ones that stayed in any area for a protracted period of time

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47. The conflict to establish new borders lasted ten days in Slovenia, but Croatia and Bosnia were subject to a protracted Serbian attack, administered and controlled by the communist Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic

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48. Make attention deficit disorder a common disease of young minds so they will not be able to focus on anything for any protracted length of time

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49. die, but be kept alive in indescribable torments, protracted to the greatest possible extent? Would

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50. suffer, however protracted his calamities were, and were likely to be, he had the utmost confidence

51. Why should Protestants boast over the Catholics in this respect? Do not both, virtually, claim that the language of Scripture is mystical, or has a meaning that does not appear in the common signification of the words? and, therefore, the Priests must interpret them to the people? Might we not as well give our Bibles altogether into the hands of these interpreters? Especially, if the plain common sense meaning of words is not to be followed, when there is no clear necessity for departing from it…What should we think of a law that says, "For murder thou shalt die," if we were told the meaning is not, that the transgressor shall actually die, but be kept alive in indescribable torments, protracted to the greatest possible extent? Would any man think he was fairly dealt with by such an administration? And would he not have just cause of complaint at the want of definiteness in the terms used to denote the punishment threatened!” Sermon One, page 13

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52. The meaning is, that however long he was to suffer, however protracted his calamities were, and were likely to be, he had the utmost confidence that God would at length, or at some future time, come forth to vindicate him

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53. and which would later enter into a protracted military struggle with the black nationalist

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54. 'Your interests are in jeopardy,—the salvation, I mean, of your souls; and unless you give yourselves to know the Supreme God, a miserable death awaits you, not bringing sudden abolition, but destroying by the bitterness of its grievous and protracted punishment

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55. For that which is seen by the eyes is only a separation of soul from body, not the last end of abolition: this, I say, is man's real death, when souls which know not God shall be consumed in protracted torment with raging fire into which certain fiercely cruel beings shall cast them, who were unknown to the world [of heathens] before Christ, and brought to light only by His wisdom, (ch

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56. allow such a schism to undermine their power base of authority without a protracted

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57. 16, 36), gives to the whole matter such a reasonable and unobjectionable aspect, that in the vast majority of cases it leaves neither room nor desire for protracted discussion

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58. The conflict must be intense enough to motivate an individual to undertake the often protracted, painful and difficult work necessary to make the transition to the next level

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59. Cruncher's conclusion after a protracted but vain endeavour to find a better one

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60. reserving me for greater sorrows, if such there be, so ordered it that just then I had enough and to spare of that reason which has since been wanting to me; and so, without seeking to take vengeance on my greatest enemies (which might have been easily taken, as all thought of me was so far from their minds), I resolved to take it upon myself, and on myself to inflict the pain they deserved, perhaps with even greater severity than I should have dealt out to them had I then slain them; for sudden pain is soon over, but that which is protracted by tortures is ever slaying without ending life

61. OF THE ARRIVAL OF CLAVILENO AND THE END OF THIS PROTRACTED

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62. She remembered the games at cards at the druggist's, and the walk to the nurse's, the reading in the arbour, the tete-a-tete by the fireside—all that poor love, so calm and so protracted, so discreet, so tender, and that she had nevertheless forgotten

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63. He cunningly conjectured they were staying away in order to avoid hearing his protracted blessing

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64. Care will also be taken that the process of suckling shall not be protracted too long; and the mothers will have no getting up at night or other trouble, but will hand over all this sort of thing to the nurses and attendants

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65. "He's younger than I," she answered, after a protracted pause of meditation, "and he ought to live the longest: he will---he must live as long as I do

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66. I could see how heavily this protracted imprisonment was weighing on him

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67. The battle was now entirely terminated with the exception of the protracted struggle between "Le Renard Subtil" and "Le Gros Serpent

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68. His vigorous nature couldn't adapt to this protracted imprisonment

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69. "I should be sorry to have the defense protracted in such a manner as to irritate my red friends there," continued Montcalm, glancing his eyes at the group of grave and attentive Indians, without attending to the other's questions; "I find it difficult, even now, to limit them to the usages of war

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70. The artifice of neither, however, succeeded; and after a protracted and fruitless interview, Duncan took his leave, favorably impressed with an opinion of the courtesy and talents of the enemy's captain, but as ignorant of what he came to learn as when he arrived

71. At the end of two years they found themselves exhausted with the protracted campaign, their movements hampered by a lot of worn-out plant and antiquated machinery, and harassed on every side by the lower charges of the Gas Coy

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72. Here the struggle was protracted, arduous and seemingly of doubtful issue; the Delawares, though none of them fell, beginning to bleed freely, in consequence of the disadvantage at which they were held

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73. During the last few years periods of unemployment had gradually become more frequent and protracted, and the attempt he had made in the early part of the year to get work elsewhere had only resulted in plunging them into even greater poverty than before

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74. Protracted knocking on the tables greeted the end of the song, but as the Semi-drunk knew no other except odd verses and choruses, he called upon Crass for the next, and that gentleman accordingly sang `Work, Boys, Work' to the tune of `Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching'

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75. Though ringweight lifting had been beyond his strength and the full circle gyration beyond his courage yet as a High school scholar he had excelled in his stable and protracted execution of the half lever movement on the parallel bars in consequence of his abnormally developed abdominal muscles

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76. Once, in 1887, after a protracted performance of charades in the house of Luke Doyle, Kimmage, he had awaited with patience the apparition of the diurnal phenomenon, seated on a wall, his gaze turned in the direction of Mizrach, the east

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77. 800 pounds plus 2 1/2 % interest on the same, repayable quarterly in equal annual instalments until extinction by amortisation of loan advanced for purchase within a period of 20 years, amounting to an annual rental of 64 pounds, headrent included, the titledeeds to remain in possession of the lender or lenders with a saving clause envisaging forced sale, foreclosure and mutual compensation in the event of protracted failure to pay the terms assigned, otherwise the messuage to become the absolute property of the tenant occupier upon expiry of the period of years stipulated

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78. room for a stately piece of machinery, that stood up-reared, between her thighs, as she continued siting on his lap, and pressed hard for instant intromission, which the tender Emily, in a fit of humour deliciously protracted, affected to decline, and elude the very pleasure she sighed for, but in a style of waywardness, so prettily put on, and managed, as to render it ten times more poignant; then her eyes, all amidst the softest dying languishment, expressed, ait once a mock denial and extreme desire, whilst her sweetness was zested with a coyness so pleasingly provoking, her moods of keeping him off were so attractive, that they redoubled the impetuous rage with, which, he covered her with kisses: and kisses that, whilst she seemed to shy from or scuffle for, the cunning wanton contrived such sly returns, of, as were, doubtless the sweeter for the gust she gave them, of being stolen ravished

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79. I am prepared to agree with our colleague that a protracted stay in Maple White Land is at present inadvisable, and that the question of our return will soon have to be faced

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80. In town, a well-planned and extensive drainage system could handle all but the most intense, protracted downpours

81. I would fain have returned home earlier that we might have been at Lowick for the Christmas; but my inquiries here have been protracted beyond their anticipated period

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82. Middlemarch gossip, protracted good cheer, whist-playing, and general futility

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83. games at cards at the druggist's, and the walk to the nurse's, the reading in the arbour, the tete-a-tete by the fireside—all that poor love, so calm and so protracted, so discreet, so tender, and that she had nevertheless forgotten

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84. If the first, very strong countertrend move is immediately reversed by another movement in the direction of the original trend, there is a good chance of a protracted consolidation following

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85. Consolidations tend to be near the trend extreme in a long trend, whereas breakout bases come after protracted trading ranges and usually not near an identifiable trend extreme

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86. After a protracted downtrend, the USDCHF bounced and set up a potential buy Anti

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87. Eventually the first-mortgage bonds may come through the reorganization undisturbed, but during a wearisome and protracted period the owners have faced a severe impairment in the quoted value of their holdings and at least some degree of doubt and worry as to the outcome

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88. This should be true, especially, after more definite standards of fairness in reorganization plans have come to be established, so that there will not be so much room as heretofore for protracted disputes between the different ranks of security holders

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89. In many cases the creditors would then be able to marshal the company’s resources and earnings for their own protection in such a way as to avoid recourse to expensive and protracted judicial proceedings

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90. Those who bought Century bonds at the bottom and held them through a contentious and protracted legal process enjoyed a return of over 400%

91. Certain price patterns are likely to be followed during receivership or bankruptcy proceedings, especially if they are protracted

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92. 6 Several of these points were involved in a protracted dispute between the New York Stock Exchange and Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation, which was terminated to the satisfaction of the Stock Exchange in 1933

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93. According to tradition the sound reason for increasing the percentage in common stocks would be the appearance of the “bargain price” levels created in a protracted bear market

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