Microsoft may not have a great many friends these days, but it does drag a long value chain behind it.
This process can take years if you want to drag it out long enough, through appellate courts and a long and exhausting appeals process.
Over the years, it has come to mean those nervous moments beyond the 90-minute mark that drag on just long enough for Ferguson's team to snatch a late goal.
But no country wants the conference, which will consist in practice mainly of weekly or fortnightly meetings of national representatives in Brussels, and which will probably open on February 14th, to drag on too long.
If the will had been signed long ago, before Hemsley was sick, Thornton likely would not have been able to drag the proceedings out as long as he did.
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These impossible situations can drag on and on long past a point you would feel it was possible for them to continue.
Without more action, though, deleveraging could drag on for a long time.
He let it drag on much too long, and by the time he tried to get it done, too many of the forces were against it.
He took a long, hard drag of his cigarette and stared right through the person to whom he was talking.
The stickiness of house prices suggests the drag on consumer spending will be long and grinding, not sudden and sharp.
That "fast track" process would be in contrast to the many Indian criminal cases that drag on for years, with long adjournments between hearings.
"Never have I seen anything like this, " said Watertown resident Tony Paulino, as businesses shuttered and streets closed, leaving many to wonder how long the manhunt would drag on.
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And they will drag out the process for a very long time, and in some cases, workers who are joining unions or want to join a union or are helping to organize one may get intimidated.
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Despite being predicted as long ago as 1887, history drag had not before been observed.
But although the wait may be long, it's easy: Simply drag and drop downloaded material from your MP3 files to the device.
He said properties left empty for a long time often attracted "vandalism and fly tipping and drag down the value of the properties all around them".
Some officials have long argued that, given the potential for Israel to drag the U.S. into potentially explosive situations, the U.S. should devote more resources to divining Israel's true intentions.
Fifty-two feet wide and a hundred and sixty feet long, the chute can generate sixty-five thousand pounds of drag.
Western investors will shortly be able to own shares of Gazprom, which promise to drag that nation's fledging stock market into the 21st century with one long pull.
It is a track with plenty of long straights and everyone will be looking to run a car with minimum drag -- much like at Monza -- in order to eek out the best top speed.
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.
Creditors attorneys (including me) thus look for every opportunity to drag the debtor before the court with the idea based on good experience that before long the judge will be flaming mad at the debtor for wasting time and will really bring down the hammer.
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Investors have long hankered for the split, as most see the publishing unit as a drag on earnings and revenues.
First, he expects that Merck will finally complete a long-planned spinoff of its pharmacy benefits unit, Medco, this summer, eliminating a drag on its stock.
So long as foreign investors favour American equities, then, its large current-account deficit will not drag down the dollar.
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