A signature that spelled the end of a protractive and unpopular campaign.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 22, 2007] Reference

Lights sprang up in the basement windows, telling of protractive legal labours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference

It's a very difficult and protractive conflict, but it's a very dangerous conflict.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2001] Reference

When the day of judgment shall bring us together, I will beg of our Lord a protractive trial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nights 9-18. The Story of the Porter and the Ladies of Baghdad, and of the Three Royal Mendicants, Etc.] Reference

"We're grateful the judge considered all the arguments on all sides and after careful and rather protractive deliberation process he came out and made the decision allowing our client to go home," said Pelaez 'lawyer, John Rodriguez.    From Wordnik.com.  [TOP STORIES - YNN, Your News Now] Reference

Are the protractive trials of the gods.    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06] Reference

But the protractive trials of great Jove.    From Wordnik.com.  [Troilus and Cressida] Reference

But the protractive tryals of great Jove.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historie of Troylus and Cresseida (1609 Edition)] Reference

But the protractive trials of great Jove.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act I. Scene III. Troilus and Cressida] Reference

He saw, but suffer'd their protractive arts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes] Reference