After the first 11 interviews with my brother Police Officer and Detective Howard Wooldridge of Lansing, Michigan (retired) concerning the “War on Drugs”, more and more Americans understand the underpinnings of how the U.S. government protracts a national taxpayer fraud. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Today, in any event, there are many signs that the party and Obama are largely moving on, while all this sound-and-fury-signifying-nothing protracts itself. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Then when ordered by the judge to produce the documents in question, it protracts the process as much as possible. ❋ Unknown (2009)
“As you will,” said his lady, throwing herself carelessly back upon the seat; “but methinks the worthy father protracts this discourse, till it becomes of a nature more trifling than interesting.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
After the first five interviews with my brother Police Officer and Detective Howard Wooldridge of Lansing, Michigan (retired) concerning the “War on Drugs”, more and more Americans understand the underpinnings of how the U.S. government protracts a national taxpayer fraud. ❋ Unknown (2008)
After the first six interviews with my brother Police Officer and Detective Howard Wooldridge of Lansing, Michigan (retired) concerning the “War on Drugs”, more and more Americans understand the underpinnings of how the U.S. government protracts a national taxpayer fraud. ❋ Unknown (2008)
A tiny microphone, previously invisible, suddenly protracts from the base and measures the room's bass properties within minutes. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Unfortunately for U.S. business, the longer Bush protracts the Iraq struggle, the more global consumers will spurn American products. ❋ Unknown (2007)
And for the Chinese, the longer this protracts, the more difficult it becomes to keep it out of the international incident stage and handle it well. ❋ Unknown (2001)
So you maneuver legally in a way that protracts the process. ❋ Unknown (2000)
But when the person's ill fate tempts him to taste it in a melancholy mood, it protracts the gloomy moments, and gives the woes of life a longer duration: he utters sighs and lamentations, he apprehends nothing but misery and misfortune, till the effect of the drug is exhausted, and he awakes from his dream of woe. ❋ Abd Salam Shabeeny (N/A)
The first step forward toward our common goal must be to learn the two lessons of the war of today and to face them unflinchingly; mere agreements do not and can not bind any nation on the globe in an hour of vital need, and the mere joining of forces widens and protracts a war, but does not hinder it. ❋ Various (N/A)
Brown and Brigadiers Scott and Gaines have gained for these heroes and their emulating companions the most unfading laurels, and, having triumphantly tested the progressive discipline of the American soldiery, have taught the enemy that the longer he protracts his hostile efforts the more certain and decisive will be his final discomfiture. ❋ United States. Presidents. (N/A)
An actual boiling is not desired, because it protracts unnecessarily the operation by the less perfect condensation of the steam. ❋ Various (N/A)
Whilst the mallow reaches the highly elaborate form of the leaf only in the final stage, the delphinium leaps forth at the outset, as it were, with the fully accomplished leaf, and then protracts its withdrawal into the calyx over a number of steps, so that this process can be watched with our very eyes. ❋ Ernst Lehrs (N/A)
[A] The honest Corporal was right; the well-dressed, gentlemanly, speculating, wholesale swindler would scorn to associate with the needy wretch who protracts a miserable existence by small pilferings -- and the fashionable courtezan who promenades Washington street and "sees company" at a splendidly furnished brothel, can perceive not the slightest resemblance between her position in society and that of the wretched troll who practises indiscriminate prostitution in some low ❋ George Thompson (N/A)
The poet's characterization of her as she protracts the story to avoid the final confession reveals an ambitious though somewhat unpracticed art. ❋ Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 (1922)
The curse of superstition is that it justifies and protracts their absence by proclaiming their invisible presence. ❋ George Santayana (1907)
This diversion is clearly inadequate and futile, if it does not actually defeat its own ends; for it merely protracts and postpones a solution, and perhaps even aggravates difficulties. ❋ Theodor Herzl (1882)
Full twenty-four inches they measure from the beak to the tip of the single pen that protracts them a foot beyond their real bulk; but it is said their tempers are shorter than they, and they attack fiercely anything they suspect of too intimate ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
