I was the chairman of a large quoted industrial company for part of the time of that protracted debate.

Protracted debate with the experts can make agreement impossible.

The need for this legal status had been the subject of protracted debate and proposed legislation was narrowly defeated in 2005.

There was a protracted debate over the route choice in the years leading up to this decision, with many parties strongly opposed to the final route choice.

Pamphlet wars became viable platforms for this protracted discussion with the advent and spread of the printing press.

The elephants used complex communications in what seemed to be protracted discussions over which route to take when herds were on the move.

In a joint statement, the companies said that protracted discussions that started last year exploring the possibility of merging their business travel interests had come to nothing.

Challenge his negative self-perception, but also be careful not to get into protracted discussions with him as this will fuel his microanalysis and reinforce his overthinking behaviour.

Nor do the protracted discussions about its role, remit and resourcing show any sign of being resolved.

The winner may yet be decided after an ugly and protracted fight in the courts.

Instead, there was a protracted fight.

During the protracted fighting one of our officers was seen to be lying out on our front.

Securing independence in the mid-1970s was an acrid and protracted process.

The demise of the coal industry has been a painfully protracted process.

His task, to implement the manifesto pledge of privatising electricity, proved to be a troubled and protracted process.

The software business will have to convince investors that it can go it alone after a protracted process failed to attract a bidder.

In part this was because that would lead to a protracted process in which certain parties would have preferential access to provisional conclusions when others did not have that chance.

On issue after issue, we face a longer, harder, and more protracted struggle than ever before.

I mean a protracted struggle, clash, fight, opposition between personalities, ideas, and interests.

Then came another lunch, followed by a lunge, a proposition, and a protracted struggle to extricate myself as tactfully as possible.

After a protracted struggle, the government withdrew the tax.

She promotes instead a complete transformation of society and all of its institutions as a result of protracted struggle, envisioning a life-affirming, peaceful tomorrow.

He claimed to have 2,000 guerrillas ready to wage a protracted war.

But those students had just emerged from a protracted war against what they saw as a tyrannical monarchy, and were therefore intensely suspicious of centralised power.

The costs of the protracted war in both money and manpower were great.

The world had just come through a terrible and protracted war, one initiated by false philosophies working on ignorance through massive control of free speech.

This was the strategy of protracted war, that tightly integrated political and military factors, and slowly weakened opposition over time by an attritional campaign.