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Several of his high-level nominees faced drawn-out battles — a few withdrew, but most were eventually approved.

"I'm not scared to die but I am scared of a bad death – a long, drawn-out, brutal, horrific death. That terrifies me."

But, after a drawn-out saga with his Japanese team, Sasaki wound up staying.

Stirewalt’s hope is that whatever the outcome, it doesn’t replicate the drawn-out battle of 2000 between Bush and Gore, which happened during a comparatively more civil time in the nation’s politics.

They centre on drawn-out contract negotiations involving the women’s senior side.