The Department of Justice -- and 20 U.S. states -- decided to formally bring antitrust charges against Microsoft in May, starting a process that may drag through the courts for years.
Perhaps this will be yet another French political scandal, albeit small beer compared with some previous pots de vin, destined to drag through the years as the judicial system bends this way and that to the pressures of politics.
That in itself engenders a problem for the director, Tom Tykwer, who has to drag us through a roster of deaths, barely pausing to introduce the victims.
The molecules are then sorted according to their length by using an electric current to drag them through a gel (small molecules move faster than big ones) and the order of the colours in the gel is read off, using a laser.
Last week Prime Minister David Cameron appealed to the six former detainees to enter mediation talks, rather than drag the case through the courts.
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Britain spent the next 15 minutes defending and the predictable outcome was another penalty-corner goal, with Ribas' low drag flick going through Mason's legs.
The area remained an unnavigable bog, forcing traders to drag their boats through the mud until 1848, when William Butler Ogden, the mightiest industrialist in the Midwest, backed the first canal that allowed boat traffic to sail straight through.
Now Mr Hain's remarks suggest there may be political limits to covert increases in income tax through fiscal drag.
An eight-inch LCD screen in the center of the dashboard allows users to scroll through menus and drag and drop icons by swiping fingers across it, much like on an iPad.
Nerves are fraying as attempts to restructure American Airlines into a viable, freestanding company through the bankruptcy process drag on.
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This process can take years if you want to drag it out long enough, through appellate courts and a long and exhausting appeals process.
He took a long, hard drag of his cigarette and stared right through the person to whom he was talking.
Instead, the Tory's leader in the House, Lord Cranborne, privately told the government his backbenchers would use trench warfare tactics to drag out the passage of the bill through the Lords and so secret negotiations began.
In 1982 so much cash flowed through the town that the main drag -- Wall Street -- seemed like the real thing.
Mr Giles's solution to the drag problem is a sharp bow that cuts through waves up to 40 feet high, and a concave hull bottom.
Steve Bruce's team dominated the early exchanges, fashioning an excellent opportunity when Stan Lazaridis slid the ball through to Damien Johnson, but the midfielder could only drag his shot past the far post.
To achieve such a performance, the ships will rely not on their mighty jet engines, nor on being long and thin, but on a revolutionary design to slice through the waves and float above the ocean's drag.
Afterward, we were asked to swipe through a Pinterest-style gallery of food pictures and drag various images into brown paper bags (or the trash) to denote which we'd like to eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner and for snacks.
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This will push the dust through the orbits where space junk can be found, and the resulting drag will, in theory, disrupt the orbit of the small debris.
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