It broke the silence with its trademark introduction – a drawn-out chord of flats and sharps that resolved in a salvo of choppy throat-wrenching sounds that poet John Clare transcribed as a prosaic "jug-jug-jug". ❋ Unknown (2011)
"I don't see a long, drawn-out multicourse meal as being romantic—you inevitably eat too much and when I overeat, it doesn't make me feel the most romantic," he says. ❋ Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan (2012)
It took russia longer to bring inflation down because of the drawn-out way in which successive governments reduced their spending. ❋ Daniel Treisman (2011)
What's wrong with it, in the view of a large number of commenters posting online at the announcement of his latest engagement (to 51-year-old heiress Nancy Shevell), seems to be that (I paraphrase) the credulous old goat ought to have learned his lesson from his drawn-out battle through the divorce courts with second wife Heather Mills – and yet here he goes again. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Because the Treasury decided a few months ago to suspend sales of T-bills under its Supplementary Financing Program SFP, which were sold under special account at the Federal Reserve to facilitate the Fed's monetary policy operations, the repos market had already suffered a shortage of T-bill collateral during the drawn-out debt-ceiling debate. ❋ Min Zeng (2011)
Those are not the moves of an executive embarking on a long and drawn-out rebuilding program. ❋ Unknown (2009)
On a net basis, AIG's first-quarter results are likely to include more one-time gains or charges tied to its drawn-out restructuring. ❋ Serena Ng (2011)
De Soto and his captains are probably concluding that this is going to be a long and drawn-out affair. ❋ W. Michael Gear (2011)
Mr. Berlusconi said the rise in Italy's borrowing costs was due to market tensions related to the drawn-out debt talks in Washington, and said markets were failing to consider the high level of savings among Italian families and the strength of local banks, which he said had weathered the financial crisis better than their European peers. ❋ Stacy Meichtry (2011)
Allowing this drawn-out saga to come to an end sooner rather than later may not be the popular thing to do. ❋ Se Young Lee (2011)
Prosecutors say Phoebe's family agreed to the plea deals to end the stress of the drawn-out court proceedings and, more importantly, because they required the teens to admit that their threats, crude insults and slurs about Phoebe's Irish ethnicity were criminal acts. ❋ Unknown (2011)
In the face of such odds, it is not surprising that Baloch diaspora are resigned to a long, drawn-out campaign. ❋ Eddie Walsh (2012)
Gingrich's poll numbers have lagging and the drawn-out contest he previously advocated for increasingly looks like it could be his undoing. ❋ Unknown (2012)
The nightingale broke the silence with its trademark introduction – a drawn-out chord of flats and sharps that resolved in a salvo of choppy throat-wrenching sounds. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Lucy was curious, too, but not nearly enough to sit through some long, drawn-out lunch and presentation. ❋ Anne Canadeo (2011)
Ms. Brown cites Boeing's decision to settle with its union and avoid a drawn-out legal battle with the NLRB as "proof" that criticism of the NLRB's intervention by right-wing lawmakers was unethical and a waste of time. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Amanda greets her with a drawn-out “Hiii!” when she comes in, and hands her a check immediately, then disappears upstairs again. ❋ Jael McHenry (2011)
“It would be worse than embarrassing,” he wrote, “if you should get tied into drawn-out conversations which would in the long run prove unsuccessful.” ❋ David A. Nichols (2011)
It is a conflict that continues despite the culmination last week of the first, long, drawn-out stage of Egypt's electoral transformation with the third round of voting for a lower house which will pick an assembly to rewrite the country's constitution ahead of presidential elections. ❋ Unknown (2012)
Money has also been poured into race relations and interfaith work in Yorkshire and nearby areas, some of it predating 7/7, as a reaction to the 2001 summer riots in Bradford, Oldham and the Harehills area of Leeds, when Asian and white youths fought in drawn-out street battles. ❋ Unknown (2011)
