| It deliberately puts in a lot of fiddling little details that drag out the story. |
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| The linen was boiled, scrubbed, rinsed and given a final soak in Robin Blue to drag out the last erg of whiteness before starching. |
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| The way I do deadstick landings is to put most of the drag out early and stay very tight to the field. |
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| Rather than drag out a seductive melody until it eventually becomes tawdry, the longest song on Be With is a Lilliputian four minutes. |
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| An appeal would drag out the issue well into 2004, maintaining the current overhang on the share price for an additional unspecified period of time. |
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| On the other hand, a business that can hire other employees as it sees fit can drag out the dispute, because it is under much less pressure. |
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| These meetings should give the union an idea to what extent Treasury Board wants to drag out the process. |
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| The uncertainty as to the meaning of these requirements gives substantial power to the patent holder, who can drag out the negotiating process. |
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| Whenever one of them has to drag out of a run or route march he comes to me and apologizes for letting me down. |
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| If the currency is not allowed to move, the adjustment will drag out and cost more in terms of losses in output and employment. |
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| Mr Barroso, your political guidelines provide little illumination as to your plans and drag out much of the same rhetoric used five years ago. |
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| In a case of obstruction masquerading as incompetence, the government continues to drag out our court case on behalf of CSIS members. |
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| Furious women, sometimes in tears, occasionally came in to drag out their husbands before he drank up all his pay. |
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| However, the real difficulties in finding and arresting fugitives should not be used to drag out the Tribunals' work for an indefinite period. |
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| To use the tool, click inside the image and drag out a rectangular region before releasing the mouse button. |
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| At least I work from home so I won't be totally screwed if I can't get a rental car right away, but I definitely don't want this thing to drag out. |
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| The next week, he and his wife have a knock-down drag out physical fight over this woman in Chicago, and he winds up with a lulu of a black eye and a broken pair of glasses. |
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| I've had just over three hours sleep, and now I face a mystery tour on one of those ropey coaches the rail companies only drag out on non-special occasions. |
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| Europe might burn down its pampered class of bureaucrats and drag out its coats of arms. |
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| For information, this piece was ordered in 1921 by a man of the church who, having a tendency to drag out his Sunday sermons, sought a way of discreetly telling the time. |
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| So on his lawyer's advice, he will plead not guilty, choose trial by jury, and ask for a preliminary hearing in order to drag out the proceedings as long as possible. |
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| I do not wish to drag out the debate on the issue, but I think it important that an Austrian should take the floor of this House today to join other Members in deploring his country's shared responsibility. |
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| Smith promised to drag out hearings on the bill. |
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| Instead, in an apparent effort to drag out the case for years, they want us to call the authors of all the 128 documents as witnesses during the trial. |
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| Otherwise, if duration were only to be fixed in final orders, there would be incentives in both directions-for some to drag out proceedings and for others to speed them up-and general inequity. |
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| I don't want to drag out this talk, so I'll stop unless you have questions. |
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| However, the selection and approval process still tends to drag out to some 15 months, which is much too long, resulting in project management problems down the road. |
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| Or, the suspense could drag out a little longer. |
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| The one continuing annoyance, though, is the need to drag out a toolchest to have all the implements necessary to accomplish the task. |
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| Congested roads will drag out his trip into town. |
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| There may be one sibling who wants to throw everything away, while another may drag out the process indefinitely, finding nostalgic value in every tchotchke. |
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| However, the original Three Stooges worked their magic in short films while the Farrellys attempt to drag out the tomfoolery here to an uncomfortable 91 minutes. |
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