1.   The many loose ends and unanswered questions continue to prolong their suffering.

2.   And while you may take its life for your benefit, you must not prolong its suffering.

3.   Aiken says shoddy medical care has prolonged his suffering.

4.   But a few weeks later, they decided that aggressive medical care would only prolong his suffering and that he would never survive infancy.

5.   She lingered in a drugged haze, losing her sight, shuddering in pain and enduring medical procedures that could not cure her, only prolong her suffering.

6.   The Brooklyn grandmaster was in a lost position when play broke off Thursday night and decided against prolonging his suffering.

7.   The dominant official view in London was that importing cheap food would subvert the free market and prolong the suffering.

8.   Iraq rejects suggestions that it has prolonged the suffering of its people by holding out against U.N. oil-for-food proposals.

9.   Many donors argue that sending in aid for the Iraqi people would prolong the suffering by keeping the Iraqi leader in power.