There are no direct sources describing the conquest of the Chajoma by the Spanish but it appears to have been a drawn-out campaign rather than a rapid victory.

Pias privately doubted whether such an army would be able to withstand a long, drawn-out campaign.

In recent days, defense officials have been talking of a drawn-out campaign, and of great obstacles to finding Mr. bin Laden.

And as with NATO, Russia's commanders have sought to prepare the public for a drawn-out campaign.

Whatever its cause, the incident was perhaps the single deadliest in Russia's drawn-out campaign to crush Chechnya's separatist movement.

"What makes for a drawn-out campaign?"

However, the army was reluctant to undertake yet another drawn-out campaign.

The mayor's supporters, meanwhile, are betting he can inspire a drawn-out campaign of nonviolent protests that will eventually pressure prosecutors or a judge to drop a contempt-of-court charge against him.

Senior civilian and military officials said the Administration had rejected earlier plans for a drawn-out military campaign, replete with bombing pauses.

Last year, after a drawn-out campaign, Highfields gained a seat on the board of the Reader's Digest Association.