| We do know the run is coming in rather protractedly. |
| Besides, has a filibuster ever prevented eventual enactment of anything significant that an American majority has desired, strongly and protractedly? |
| This matching has the ability of producing dry ice preserving protractedly. |
| It has no right to protractedly interfere with market mechanisms, let alone to seek to assume the bond market's function. |
| General elections next year could also potentially, and protractedly, shift political focus away from the reform agenda. |
| Growth in world trade has slowed, markedly and protractedly. |
