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• “And there was a protracted meeting going on, what we called protracted, big meeting, you know.”

  Oral History Interview with Dock E. Hall, January 7, 1976. Interview H-0271. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

• “U.N. food agencies said Wednesday that 166 million people in 22 countries suffer chronic hunger or difficulty finding enough to eat as a result of what they called protracted food crises.”

  SFGate: Top News Stories

• “- U.N. food agencies said Wednesday that 166 million people in 22 countries suffer chronic hunger or difficulty finding enough to eat as a result of what they called protracted food crises.”

  StarTribune.com rss feed

• “The general reiterated a theme he's visited repeatedly during public addresses: the nation is engaged in a period of persistent conflict, which he defines as protracted confrontation among state and non-state actors who are increasingly willing to use violence to accomplish their political and ideological objectives.”

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• “The two U.N. agency directors, Jacques Diouf of the FAO and Josette Sheeran of the WFP said there is an urgent need for assistance in protracted crises to protect livelihoods as well as lives, because this will help put the countries on a constructive path to recovery.”

  Voice of America: Food Agencies Warn of 'Protracted Food Crises'

• “This very risky gambit resulted in protracted negotiations involving the Pentagon, the National Security Council, the State Department, and the South Korean government, ultimately yielding a new framework for American soldiers to remain in Korea indefinitely.”

  What Rumsfeld Got Right

• “This may be a function of the fact that offense has historically been a better strategy than defense over any long-term protracted struggle.”

  Why Peaceful Anarchy Fails, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “Steve Biko, for example, "through his lieutenants was engaged in protracted secret talks with underground representatives of the ANC and PAC in the hope of effecting a united front.”

  'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976

• “This article traces the contours of a different kind of paradigmatic split, one that results in protracted confluence and contest rather than an immediate absorption of one model by another.”

  A Teleology of Letters; or, From a

• “The biggest problem today is so-called protracted refugee situations where people have been living as refugees for decades, for generations and there is no solution in sight for them, Nyberg added.”

  Voice of America: World Refugee Day Given Urgency by Arab Spring

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