She worked her fingers into the neck; extricating the manuscript was a deliriously prolonged ordeal.

This becomes a prolonged, painful, emotionally taxing, undignified and enormously expensive ordeal for patients and families, with no change in the long-term outcome.

Much time has been spent during this prolonged ordeal comparing the situation to Watergate, only for most to conclude that the two have little in common.

The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) arrested Ship in July 1953 and, after a prolonged ordeal, threw him out of the US at the Detroit/Windsor border crossing.

Recovered from her prolonged ordeal, Dorothy nodded.

Lakshmi leaves the temple, and avenges the insult by cursing her husband and elder brother-in-law to go through a prolonged ordeal without food, water or shelter.

It marked an almost instantaneous end to the prolonged ordeal that began in the early morning hours of March 30, shortly after Mr. Smith met the woman at a Palm Beach night club called Au Bar.

Overall, though, captivity in Vietnam was a prolonged ordeal which, even as conditions eased after 1970, meant years of misery for American POWs.

He sensed that they could not stand a prolonged ordeal.

But today he announced a plan to address the broader legislative issues that make New York's annual budget process a prolonged ordeal, and proposed a pair of government reform bills to encourage legislative action.