The amendments to the bill brought by honourable members of the opposition was, at best, to protract the passing of the bill and at worst to scuttle the bill altogether.
This sort of comedy of the inhumanly vindictive antagonism by which a man and woman protract the ultimate inevitable plunge into each other's arms has, even at its silliest, some .
I could take the simplest antitrust case and protract it for the defense almost to infinity .
Saad Hariri in Los Angeles Times This terrorist attack comes at a vital time when the enemies of Lebanon are trying to protract the presidential vacuum and create sectarian strife among the Lebanese,Saad Hariri, the head of the pro-Western parliamentary majority, said in a...
John Burgoyne in New York Times Such a pittance of troops as Great Britain and Ireland can supply will only serve to protract the war, to incur fruitless expense and insure disappointment,Burgoyne added in a letter in the collection that will be auctioned beginning next...
Mirek Topolanek in Deutsche Welle If we have politicians interfering more than is strictly necessary through protectionism, they may indeed protract the crisis,Topolanek said.