"prolonged" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- And it's far from clear that American military intervention would produce more than a prolonged stalemate.
- The dispute has led to a prolonged stalemate over the role the C.I.A. should play in Iraq policy.
- Indeed, the traditional battles have led to prolonged stalemates and enormous costs.
- In the face of a prolonged stalemate, they say, North Korea might also threaten to resume testing long-range missiles, thereby developing the means to strike the United States.
- But it has been a clash of views on legal guns that has contributed to a prolonged stalemate on coming to an agreement.
- Our efforts could also be hampered by the probability of a prolonged stalemate in the Soviet Union itself.
- Zambia's major industry, copper mining, depends heavily on oil and will be hard hit if there is a prolonged stalemate in the gulf.
- In the unique association of democracies that makes up the European Union careful deliberation is always necessary but no constructive interests are really served by prolonged stalemate.
- Debt analysts said the announcement formalized a prolonged stalemate between Ecuador and the banks, which had not signed the October rescheduling agreement.
- In some ways the run-up to Plataea resembled that at the Battle of Marathon; there was a prolonged stalemate in which neither side risked attacking the other.
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