Instead of a quick decision, he got a protracted debate that continued into the weekend.

Since then, its fate has been the subject of protracted debate and legal battles.

No one wants to get into that kind of protracted debate.

But like so much else in Albany, the deal disappeared last summer into the black hole of the protracted debate on the state budget.

But what is sure to be a passionate, protracted debate has already started.

There was also a protracted debate over how many days the Serbs should be given to withdraw their weapons.

The selections are the result of protracted debates between Iraq's top political parties.

This is part of a protracted debate about truth and falsity.

After protracted debate suitable language was agreed upon for passage of a resolution by the Congress.

"These hospitals are not in a position to survive a protracted debate over charity care financing," he said.

In these writings can be read the record of a prolonged interior debate.

The move provoked a prolonged debate about the pricing of audits.

"Is this going to lead to more talking and prolonged debate?"

Members of both houses predicted prolonged debate on the issue.

The call makes a prolonged debate over the issue all but inevitable as legislators struggle to fashion a new state budget.

I spoke for forty minutes and carried the whole audience after a prolonged debate.

We call for a more prolonged public debate on this issue involving the local community hospitals and the public they serve.

But they acknowledge that those efforts, which would result in weakening state control, have been slowed by a prolonged internal debate.

A longtime supporter of overhauling the regulatory system, he played a central role in the prolonged debate.

After a prolonged public debate, it was agreed in 1987 to preserve the area as an open space for public use.