Yet, even under him, the protraction of the proceedings, and the evident shrinking from final condemnation, show how little encouragement there was for prosecutions likely to react so dangerously on the prosecutor.
This explains what otherwise would be hard to understand--the immense protraction of so many of the inquisitorial trials whose records have reached us.
It would have been a better course, would have had a better effect, and kept the American mind from the impression which the protraction of the discussion must have occasioned, when taken in connection with the subject.
On the part of Britain a protraction of the war, by refusing to meet us on the terms proposed, can proceed from no other motive than a determination to continue that abuse of power which she has inflicted and we have suffered so long.
Raux-Tripier has seen protraction to the thirteenth month.
The question of retardation of labor, like that of premature birth, is open to much discussion, and authorities differ as to the limit of protraction with viability.
The lengthened bill should produce no difficulties in protraction of the upper mandible and depression of the lower for the reason that in the dove there is no known resistance offered to these movements.
This action, as mentioned previously, results in protraction of the upper jaw, and, as a consequence, its action supplements the action of M.
This action aids in protraction of the upper mandible.
The result of gaping in Icterus should be the presence of a more massive set of muscles concerned with protraction and depression than is found in non-gaping groups.
All these manoeuvres of the Whigs, aided by the Democratic underworking, resulted, of course, in the protraction of a war which they posed as hating.
It asked for thirty millions, and our commissioner, in view of the expenses already caused by the protraction of the war, would give but fifteen.
Hour-glass contraction of the uterus is liable to occur where the action of the uterus has been much deranged or exhausted, either by the unusual rapidity or excessive protraction of the labour.
Consultation with these two officers soon revealed to Mr. Davis their convictions of the hopelessness of a fartherprotraction of the struggle.
We remark the greater protraction of the north-western arm of the bow, a feature which may be traced in the configuration of most of the great Asiatic chains.
Some conception of the stupendous proportions of the mountain may be derived from a rough measurement of its protraction in a latitudinal sense.
These features lend unity to the whole fabric, and preserve an exactly proportionate relation between the shape and size of the two mountains and the protraction of their basal slopes.
I added, as moderately as I could, that in all frankness any further protraction of this relation could scarcely fail to be viewed by us as hostile in spirit, and to require some corresponding action accordingly.
The protraction of the war was beginning to try the endurance of the nation.
The scandal of the almost open co-operation of the Bond with the Boer leaders had become notorious, and this assistance was recognised as a contributory cause to the protraction of the guerilla war.
These, then, were the means employed by the British military authorities to avert a needless protraction of the war.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "protraction" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
