A protracted political trial followed as to the fitness of the five Socialists to assume their seats, which ran throughout the winter and spring.

Now she'll have to suffer through protracted trials that continue to evoke the memory of her son's last moments of life.

Reference was made to this protracted trial.

All three cases ended after protracted and expensive trials.

"People can't afford to have lawyers in a protracted, long trial in a distant forum."

Today's more aggressive remarks seemed to stem from growing concern in the Clinton camp that the Senate was headed for a protracted trial.

But the uncertainty of going forward and the fact of a protracted trial meant that a settlement was a better course of action.

The risk of a protracted trial, such as has been taking place in Rome, was thus avoided.

But in the extensive newspaper publicity and during the protracted trial all the evidence for and against Beecher poured out.

In 1845, after a protracted trial, he was acquitted by the synod.