Word: protractedness
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For the American military, Haq's demise was a humbling end to a humbling week. Since the beginning of the campaign, the President's men have reminded Americans that this "new" kind of conflict could end up being as protracted as the cold war. And yet for a while the...
PROTRACTED OPERATIONS IN REMOTE LOCATIONS
Protracted negotiations won political concessions but fell short of achieving the desired action. Republicans didn?t exactly suffer from the stalemate. While unionist support for the agreement began to collapse, Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.?s political wing, rapidly grew into the largest party for Catholic nationalists. Many in Northern Ireland...
Under Cambridge’s current Plan E form of government, the city councillors choose the mayor from among themselves in what is typically a protracted process.
In the future, when the panacea for venereal disease is finally discovered, a new form of highly contagious and often unexpungeable affliction will excite the public’s fear: the download. Symptoms: icon blemishes, commonly found in the bottom right corner of the screen; a geologically protracted start-up...