It was his task to knit together all the threads of compromise during protracted meetings and telephone calls.

New Sanctions in Bill In a number of cases, the House negotiators, in protracted meetings, agreed to language in the Senate bill that seemed less harsh than provisions in the House bill.

A person familiar with the details of the protracted meeting Thursday night said: "Everyone was just too tired to take it up.

The company's shares, which closed at $50.75 on the eve of the May 25 board meeting, did not trade at all as that protracted six-hour meeting continued.

So Whipple fabricated an intricate plot, whereby Abner was called to what the missionaries called "a protracted meeting" at Wailuku, where long ago he had tended Urania Hewlett at her death.

Encouraged by friend and fellow student Bob McMahon, he planned a "protracted meeting" of three weeks' duration which would begin on 1896 June 15, at a small log schoolhouse named "Accident" near Nashville.

I attended "protracted meetings" and "revival meetings."

Taken together, the two key measures approved by Congress are designed to achieve $33.3 billion in budget savings that were hammered out last month in protracted meetings between Congressional leaders and Administration officials.

Methodist and Baptist churches were among the first structures in the community, around which much of the social life centered, including "protracted meetings" - revivals.

He was most often the one at the protracted political meetings who was able to wade through all the tangled webs of various arguments to get right to the heart of the matter.