Word: protract
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...even as the takeover bid was welcomed by the Northern Rock board and the British government, shareholders small and large indicated they may block Branson's bid, a move that could protract efforts to save this high-profile casualty of the global credit crunch, and cause a full-blown political crisis for Chancellor of the Exchequer-turned-Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, who has already seen his reputation for fiscal prudence damaged by the affair...
Given that the reviewing and negotiating aspects of the DPIR will be inseparable processes, task force member Harry Mattison expressed concern that “more focused meetings” and the necessity of going back and forth on negotiating key points will protract the review-time...
Returning books to most online vendors, while allowed, requires mailing the item back--which can protract the process and makes refunds less reliable...
...last summer was by far the worst Malvolio I have ever seen, professional or amateur. This time we have Kenneth Haigh, who knows what he's doing. He can wither with a glance, and inflate his importance with a long swagger-stick. And he is wise enough not to protract the Letter Scene beyond endurance. Fine as Haigh is though he has not found as many nucances in the character as Philip Kerr did on this came stage...
...most liberal guarantees anywhere in the world. "It was a wonderful position for the defense counsel," says Heinz Brangsch, executive director of the West German Lawyers Association. "Then came terrorism and a breakdown of our position." When the terrorists came to trial, radical lawyers manipulated the liberal rules to protract proceedings, turning them into politicized circuses. Unlike William Kunstler and other radical American lawyers, they did not even have to worry about contempt citations; none exist under German...