prolongation

Examples of prolonging

prolonging

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

In fact, fathers could delay funding their sons' marriages on the grounds that money was unavailable, thereby prolonging their access to the young men's labor.
No one seriously proposed that the families were mistaken in thinking that ventilator support would be effective in prolonging the patient's biological existence.
Therefore, it was argued, a process of prolonging independence will have substantial economic advantages, as care remains on lower cost settings.
Indirect costs such as unrelated healthcare costs and costs of general consumption generated by prolonging of life were not included in the analysis.
Prolonging life is not typically a clinical goal of palliative care.
Of the remaining six, three had surgical thrombectomy, one developed bronchitis and two had renal anomalies which required evaluation before discharge, thus prolonging their hospitalization.
One physician questioned the wisdom of prolonging the dying.
Nevertheless, the possible efficacy of sub-imbibed storage in prolonging the post-harvest lifespan of recalcitrant seeds has been suggested periodically since 1980.
The archive can benefit from the encouragement of personal engagements and preferences, sustaining and prolonging each individual's commitment to the project.
Considerable support has been expressed for lifelong education initiatives, both in relation to prolonging workforce involvement and in retirement.
The leveling technique reorganizes noncritical activities to reduce fluctuations in daily resource utilization without altering the activities' logical sequences nor prolonging project duration.
They actively take part in dramatizing the stories they hear, prolonging and adding more details to the stories.
Potential therapeutic strategies for delaying preterm birth and prolonging pregnancy will also be discussed.
This is not to say that crying and other behaviors are not used in later development as a means of prolonging investment.
Postponed retirement solves this problem partially by prolonging the redemption period of investments in human capital and thereby inducing higher extensive and intensive education.
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