protraction

protracted | American Dictionary

protracted
adjective
us/proʊˈtræk·tɪd/
lasting for a long time, or made to continue longer than necessary:
Their protracted legal battle may soon be resolved.

Examples of protracted

protracted
First, minority governments often emerge in situations in which, after protracted negotiations, attempts to construct a majority coalition have failed.
The extent to which an event elicits distinctive physiological and cognitive responding, the greater the probability that the event will be retained over protracted intervals.
It is also necessary to repeat this process throughout the protracted emergence period.
While this is not a major factor during the acute phase of the disease, it will contribute to the disease process in more protracted cases.
Similarly, regular or irregular past tense morphology on verbs is absent for a long period of time, more protracted even than -s.
In a couple of cases, the protracted period of wear away amounted to the equivalent of freezing the old plan.
We might even expect disagreeing parties to engage in protracted talk about the quality of the merchandise until some common ground or resolution was reached.
The 1851 data have provoked a protracted debate concerning the relationship between churchgoing and urbanisation.
On this account, laws have typically resulted from protracted experimentation by social actors with a view to enhancing the predictability of social intercourse.
With protracted loud playing, therefore, the relationship of input to output is increasingly likely to be stretched in time.
Processes such as stretching or extending are temporally protracted and hence correlate with our experience of duration.
The subject also inevitably produced caustic and protracted struggle between municipal, state and ecclesiastical authorities for the regulation and control of morals.
As these middle-aged women frequently had to depend on social assistance for protracted periods, they experienced their situation as shameful and became very depressed.
They wore down the army through guerrilla and mobile warfare, the first two phases in a protracted war.
In shepherding its preferred candidates into premierships, the national party involved itself in protracted negotiations with local and regional elements of the party.
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