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Looking back on those lost decades, it is as if everything was leading us to the kind of conflict now seen in Burkina Faso, combining the reality of a protracted war, fueled by terrorism.

Nelson studiously dissected and diagrammed the fish’s muscles and proposed that they protracted and retracted specifically to pull prey down eels’ throats, though he had no proof.

The post Advertisers’ protracted pursuit of cross-media measurement is gathering pace.

They’re not able to change the mediation mechanisms, they’re not able to think out of the box and they’re not able to come up with something new—and this just protracts the conflict.

While pediatricians and nonprofits such as Healthy Babies Bright Futures say levels in individual baby foods do not pose a significant risk, protracted exposure over time can cause lasting neurodevelopmental disabilities in children.

But the growing crops are too cleanly and carefully weeded and too uniformly good to protract the illusion.

I have again revived, but it is only to protract my course for a little time longer.

With all his skill, the persistent and adroit minister had been unable to protract negotiations longer than the eighteenth.

When a dressing is put on, do not remove it, as it will be sure to protract the cure, by admitting the air.

I must not protract a tale already far too long, by the recital of my acquaintance with the gallant Twenty-sixth.