Fear was developing in him that he would be unable to take the city without a protracted effort.

After protracted efforts to avoid incarceration, May subsequently served nine months in federal prison.

"The Captive Public" is an acute study of the current political consequences of that "protracted effort" by the state.

Because of the city's protracted efforts to have it demolished, he said, "this has become the Vietnam of old railroad trestles."

The meetings revived talks between the two countries on China's protracted effort to become a member of the organization that sets global commerce rules.

His protracted efforts were, in the long run, partly successful.

"This is going to be an extraordinarily protracted effort."

The agreement represents further progress in the difficult and protracted efforts to reschedule Brazil's debts to the foreign banks.

He said he had learned from the protracted effort to sell the company's consulting businesses that "you don't announce sales in advance."

That was excuse, reason and compulsion enough to demand the largest and most protracted effort they could make.