This process can take years if you want to drag it out long enough, through appellate courts and a long and exhausting appeals process.

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Once the conversion is complete you can drag it out of iTunes and post, send, share or put on your music players, phones, or whatever.

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Alitalia said it would cut 2, 700 jobs as part of a three-year rescue plan to drag it out of the red and make it fit for the merger.

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Even if the south has no chance of winning the oil back, it may drag out legal proceedings to satisfy its hotheads at home.

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After a brief period of adjusting to having some weight on my wrist after a long absence, I remembered how convenient it was not to have to drag my phone out of its holster simply to check the time.

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Mr Daniels, in Indiana, has proposed a similar measure, although he opposes a move by the state legislature to allow employees in any unionised workplace to opt out of paying union dues, as Mr Walker also proposes, for fear it will spark a knock-down drag-out fight with the labour movement.

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Like the TiVo case, VOOM and others demonstrate that a determined party can drag out the legal process and prevent the other side from obtaining a remedy for harm it has suffered.

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The tussle added three months to the merger schedule--a drag at the time, but as HP insiders now say, it gave them breathing room to sort out operational details.

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