Prolong
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The alternative – an attempt at negotiation between Syria’s government and an increasingly fragmented opposition – would serve only to
prolong
the war and raise the death toll.
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If we just
prolong
the trends, without any real advanced analysis, to 2050, there are two things that can increase the energy use: first, population growth; second, economic growth.
But they don't put much stock in efforts to
prolong
life in the face of debilitating illness or in old age.
In reality, the relationship between the living and the dead has its own drama in the U.S. healthcare system, where decisions about how long to stretch the thread of life are made based on our emotional and social ties with the people around us, not just on medicine's ability to
prolong
life.
Child marriages
prolong
the vicious cycle of poverty, poor health, lack of education.
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