Definitions of labor protraction, arrest challenged. From Wordnik.com. [Peace Grandmothers Embrace Health Care Issue] Reference
"The continued protraction of the case is not helping anyone,". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
But I had no fancy for such an expedient, a mere protraction of the agony. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
Benedict was following "the protraction of their kidnapping with concern," Lombardi said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
In a world devoid of moral purpose, life without human loyalties is a senseless protraction of suffering. From Wordnik.com. [War As an Aspect of Nature] Reference
Those require a different kind of change and we have an appetite for neither its protraction nor its privations. From Wordnik.com. [Broken resolutions can be good for you | Hephzibah Anderson] Reference
But she boldly scorning all delayes, or any further protraction of time; demanded again, what was her accusation?. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron] Reference
Whence it seemed to me, that time is nothing else than protraction; but of what, I know not; and I marvel, if it be not of the mind itself?. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions] Reference
An enemy vulnerable in many ways, and no matter how many loyal lives were lost, money expended by the protraction of the war, but to be assailed in one. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
As the strike showed signs of protraction, P.R. Menon, known for leftist leanings from his fiery days at the FPJ, tried to intervene with the management. From Wordnik.com. [Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press] Reference
And, in all frankness and courtesy, I have to add, that any further protraction of this relation can scarcely fail to be viewed by us as hostile in spirit. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Accidental obscurity or dawdling is one thing, sure, but deliberate protraction and orchestrated ambiguity can be choices, no less elegant when carried off with expertise. From Wordnik.com. [Are You Meandering Around a Castle for 200 Pages? Well, Stop That, Suckah!] Reference
I fear that a protraction of the War during another year or longer, is a not less probable result of the present posture of affairs, than either the immediate subjugation of the. From Wordnik.com. [Great Britain and the American Civil War] Reference
He had to exploit his only advantages — numbers and mobility — and, unless his equipment could be improved, there was no saying where this protraction of his front might end!. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
Raux-Tripier has seen protraction to the thirteenth month. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
The spring proved little better than a protraction of trial. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Charlotte Bronte — Volume 2] Reference
Raux-Tripier 2.116 has seen protraction to the thirteenth month. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Forrester, was the privation and protraction of his love-arrangements. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia] Reference
The problem can be worked out, either by calculation or by protraction. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries] Reference
The protraction of the war was beginning to try the endurance of the nation. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902] Reference
The sole rays in a dreary protraction of existence were afforded by the Intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad] Reference
We went yesterday to the shore, and by protraction Rua point was distant thirty-three miles. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868] Reference
Every moment of its protraction seemed still more to unsettle the understanding of his daughter. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia] Reference
Their importance to the young, to parents, and to society, it is hoped may apologize for their protraction. From Wordnik.com. [Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America] Reference
Both voices had in their accents and delivery something of the sadness and infinite protraction of the plain. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Trail and Town] Reference
The depth and protraction of the economic downturn is apparent in local banks 'third-quarter numbers, which the. From Wordnik.com. [Jacksonville Business News - Local Jacksonville News | Jacksonville Business Journal] Reference
He made the report to the New York Senate Commission on Asylums for the Insane as one of three years 'protraction. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
These, then, were the means employed by the British military authorities to avert a needless protraction of the war. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902] Reference
I hope by this, to be able to compress my remarks on your reasoning, and avoid any unnecessary protraction of this epistle. From Wordnik.com. [A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation] Reference
This, my Lords, is the kind of damage which he has suffered by the want of witnesses, through the protraction of this trial. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12)] Reference
It was aggravated through the protraction of the voyage by contrary winds from the customary fortnight or three weeks to six. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography] Reference
The voyager embarks, and is in all probability confined to his cabin, suffering under the dreadful protraction of seasickness. From Wordnik.com. [Newton Forster The Merchant Service] Reference
It would only be a protraction of my misery -- a few hours more of wretched existence -- for certainly I must meet death by hunger. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Tar] Reference
But for the protraction of this separation, after the first necessity for it had passed away, there would seem to be absolutely no excuse. From Wordnik.com. [Art in England Notes and Studies] Reference
In Evan's face and Juliana's there was not much sign that any protraction of their walk together would aid this beneficent process of nature. From Wordnik.com. [Evan Harrington — Complete] Reference
So, I think it is a fairly attractive business model but we have to operate prudently and we don't know how long a protraction in the economic climate will be. From Wordnik.com. [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference
The question of retardation of labor, like that of premature birth, is open to much discussion, and authorities differ as to the limit of protraction with viability. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
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