The number of potentially life prolonging technologies offered by contemporary medicine is proliferating.

Such delays are costly, and risk allowing pathologies to fester, prolonging the healing process further.

This may not be ideal, but it is better than prolonging a fight that cannot be won.

Last fall, Germany, the largest contributor to the EU budget, accepted a compromise prolonging the present CAP for a decade.

Even disinfecting water the single most important technological advance ever in prolonging human life turns out to produce carcinogenic byproducts.

Furthermore, the Cabinet of Ministers is discussing the possibility of prolonging the decision to freeze the funded pensions of Russian citizens.

Liberals and critics say my writing and opinions are prolonging the Islamic Republic and putting a prettier face on the reality.

This process will probably carry the cost of prolonging the emergence of a single European political loyalty (if one ever does emerge).

The Kremlin continues its propaganda offensive against Georgia, and has vetoed prolonging the mandate for United Nations observers in Georgia and Abkhazia.

But prolonging a conflict that has already led to more than 200,000 deaths and displaced roughly five million people is in no one s interest.

By contrast, increasing demand by prolonging easy monetary policy or expanding fiscal spending is likely to result in rising inflation rather than rising employment.

By contrast, Israeli or American military action against Iran would risk worsening the situation, prolonging and intensifying the suffering in this very sensitive region of the world.

But, by renewing their bilateral treaty now, Egypt and Israel would maximize their chances of prolonging an arrangement that has kept them from fighting for more than three decades.

Rather than trying to face down impeachment and prolonging the crisis, he should recognize that Pakistan cannot afford more instability, and that giving up honorably will bring him some respect.

In short, government policies to support the housing market not only have failed to fix the problem, but are prolonging the deleveraging process and creating the conditions for Japanese style malaise.

Not only was the dean reluctant to leave his position and respond to the questions, but the University Governing Board also kept silent, prolonging the hunger strike up to nine days.

No Iraqi political faction wants to be blamed for prolonging the occupation, but most, with the exception of Muqtada al Sadr s movement, will agree to extend America s military presence by another five years.

Even disinfecting water the single most important technological advance ever in prolonging human life turns out to produce carcinogenic byproducts. The cycle of fundamental discovery, technological development, revelation of undesirable consequences, and public aversion appears unbreakable.

Their children are also at the back of the queue when it comes to matters of succession and inheritance, although there are exceptions, such as when men take on a tokol for the explicit reason of prolonging their blood line through male offspring.

For example, France remains unwilling to accept a fundamental reform of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), of which it is the chief beneficiary. Last fall, Germany, the largest contributor to the EU budget, accepted a compromise prolonging the present CAP for a decade.

For the last couple of years, the FARC, many of whose leaders believe that they win simply by prolonging the conflict, has been seeking ways for example, a humanitarian exchange and political recognition to ease the military pressure that it has faced since Uribe came to power.

Certainly, the effect of the wars on the merchant and labouring classes was far less than in the long drawn out wars of siege and pillage in France and elsewhere in Europe, which were carried out by mercenaries who profited from the prolonging of the war.

The US government does not need to be convinced about that, but the American people and ordinary Iraqis want to see the troops go home. No Iraqi political faction wants to be blamed for prolonging the occupation, but most, with the exception of Muqtada al Sadr s movement, will agree to extend America s military presence by another five years.