At that time, Silber said he would stay on for three to five years, adding " I'm not going to protract this endlessly, but neither am I going to be a lame duck ."
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The doubtful allegiance of the Dalmatians tended to protract the struggle between Venice and Hungary, which was further complicated by internal discord due largely to the spread of the Tatar invasion of Dalmatia forty years later ( see Trogir ).
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:" Mr . I . H . Browne admitted many disagreeable circumstances had occurred in the Committee, but he believed from no ill intention in any one, nor from any desire to protract unnecessarily the time of the Committee.
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McLaren responded to the steward's complaint, saying its previous statements " may have been misinterpreted " and that it did not want to " protract the debate regarding the steward's decision in respect to its braking system ."
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*: moreover, you have not considered that I had taken steps to resolve the issue ( article talk, warning on user talk ), but the IP chose to protract this .-- Record 07 : 38, 8 December 2010 ( UTC)
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For a whole year, Turkey has done everything to protract time and fail the process . . . We consider unacceptable the pointless efforts of making the dialogue between Armenia and Turkey an end in itself; from this moment on, we consider the current phase of normalization exhausted ."
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There's a priceless bit where she impersonates German couture designer Karl Lagerfeld at one of his shows and Cho protracts the moment, allowing you to see how grandly absurd her face is inhabiting Lagerfeld's severe, aloof-bitch persona : In her hands, he's nothing less than a slapstick geisha.
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To my inexpressible astonishment and concern the rebel army have all escapd across the [ East ] River to New York ! how this has happened is surprizing, for had our troops followd them close up, they must have thrown down their arms and surrenderd . . . . Now, I foresee they will give us trouble enough, and protract the war, Heaven knows how long.
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The Monaldeschi towerhouse that rises above the rooftops of Civitella d'Agliano, overtopping the " campanile " of the church, still evokes the feudal power of the Monaldeschi at the limits of Umbria, on the banks of the Tiber; they were dislodged from Agliano by the Papacy in 1415, following the distracting Western Schism that had served to protract the Monaldeschi's medieval power.
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I'm not going to even get into the pattern of personal harassment of me by Sandstein, and his un-recusal ( after recusing because other admins said he was INVOLVED ), to personally ban me in a WP : ANI case, etc . If the accusation is voided, and I'm not further harassed by him, I don't have any desire to protract any dispute with him.