| Men and women are encouraged to protract their sexually active lives, regardless of desire. |
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| His strategy was to protract negotiations until the enemy were exhausted, while assembling the forces necessary to crush them. |
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| Recently the chancellor made clear that he was willing to risk investment in the new green economy to protract the life old way of doing things. |
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| Courts by definition exaggerate the distance between litigants, exaggerate lines of hostility and protract issues. |
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| To deprive a successful litigant of interest on his or her legal costs is to encourage the losing side to delay and protract the assessment process. |
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| I repeat we do not want to protract the conference but I can see no reason why it could not end for instance in January, if need be. |
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| The allegation that the members would protract the hearing to obtain more per diem payments could not be accepted since it presumed bad faith on their part. |
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| Or maybe if Ferrara wanted to do Zoolander 3. Exasperating though this film can be, Refn shows real visual style and a willingness to protract wordless scenes into a nightmarish state beyond narrative. |
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| I do not think we want to protract the committee stage process any longer than is absolutely necessary, but we have to hit those high points that have been raised by members in debate today. |
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| Some apprehension may therefore arise in response to requests to put over a matter, or protract a sentencing hearing, in order to facilitate input from the victim. |
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| Here too, enlargement will protract procedures and necessitate a distinction between strictly technical acts and those of a legislative nature subject to co-decision. |
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| Rather than setting out the conditions for stabilisation, it would protract or even increase instability, requiring an even more important international presence for a longer-term. |
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| Particularly when we are gathered around the Eucharistic table, which sacramental event we protract in adoration, we believe that it is He who calls us together. |
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| Without wishing to protract the Intergovernmental Conference, we think that it is not possible to limit its duration by the end of the Italian chairmanship. |
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| We didn't want to protract the sense of instability and insecurity. |
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