But the episode was a losing battle in Israel's drawn-out war in 2010 to maintain its international reputation.
The echoing bang of the slammed cellar door had not died away before there was a terrible, drawn-out scream from directly above them.
China continues to adhere to the iron ore in the long-drawn-out negotiating table, the iron ore trade in the domestic market but in the event of subtle changes.
In the Mongolian language, these mean "long-drawn-out songs".
It underwent a long-drawn-out process of evolution, and was characterized by secrecy, autocarcy, conservatism, deceitfulness and greediness.
Technically, Ren's preference to condensed, succinct phrasal utterances instead of to drawn-out, grammatically viable sentences shows how well he grasps the quintessence of poetry.
bellows fishes; shrimpfishes; cornetfishes; pipefishes; small order of chiefly tropical marine fishes of varied and bizarre form all having a small mouth at the end of a drawn-out tubular snout.
For followers of European space affairs, the ExoMars initiative has been a long, drawn-out affair.
A few cows grazing on the pasture let out a long drawn-out moo now and then as if urging their masters to lead them back as quickly as possible.
The influence of function concept on the development of mathematics is long-drawn-out.
But this week the party's deputies took their oaths in parliament, averting a drawn-out political crisis, even though the courts had rejected appeals for the members' release.
The Anfield club face the possibility that a long, drawn-out dispute could disrupt their season.
A drawn-out wrangle in the courts might produce more acrimony after a hard-fought and at times bitter campaign, although a legal scrap would be preferable to street violence.
The contrast between the two instruments one producing pellet-like short notes by twanging, and the other producing long-drawn-out notes conjures up a picture of a river in springtime.
A drawn-out game is now about to start.
Their tentative agreement to the deal lessens the chances of a long, drawn-out wrangle, which could keep GM tied up in the bankruptcy courts for many months.
His visions didn't help when the feds came knocking in the late 1990s for one of the longest, most drawn-out antitrust cases in U.S. history.
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