| My own work has proceeded in fits and starts throughout the holiday, with long intervals of idleness in between. |
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| We played in fits and starts and never really clicked and opened up, but we're happy with the points. |
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| It was built in 1961, and it's been renovated in fits and starts, so it's sort of an architectural Frankenstein. |
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| After hearing some fits and starts, we realized that the tape was chewed beyond repair. |
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| The audience seemed bewildered, laughing riotously in fits and starts. |
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| By contrast, British pop, fuelled by speed and e, moves in fits and starts, breaks and loops, sudden surges, depressive longeurs and doublings-back. |
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| Aside from the gym, I tend to go clubbing and pubbing in fits and starts. |
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| Granted, this is government by fits and starts, hobbled by the whims of voters. |
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| It moves by fits and starts, through pangs of revulsion and flashes of revelation. |
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| As a last word about forward-looking it may be said that planning cannot be successful if it is carried on by fits and starts. |
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| It advances by fits and starts, and mainly benefits rich countries and populations. |
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| Then, as we watched for the next 15 years the Air-India investigation itself seemed to go in fits and starts. |
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| There were fits and starts to this policy, but the first commitment was made in 1759, in the days following the British victory. |
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| The development of M-money services in Africa seemed to get going in fits and starts. |
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| The British Crown, in the face of American unrest, allowed these French settlers, in fits and starts, to keep their language and their religion. |
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| A heavy silence descended on the town, in fits and starts, in torrents, in sobs. |
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| North Korea continues to be placated by an escalating set of economic measures, while its missile technology grows in fits and starts. |
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| The improvement came slowly, sporadically, in fits and starts. |
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| Like my wife's slimming programme, this year's harvest is going in fits and starts, punctuated by incredibly hot days of activity and frustrating rest periods. |
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| It extended itself — not evenly, but in fits and starts, around her waist, like a shingly girdle pushing long fibrous fingers down toward her groin, thrusting out cysts and gritty coruscations above her pubic hair. |
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| Privatisation proceeds in fits and starts. |
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| Gradually, in fits and starts, we are now getting somewhere. |
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| Meanwhile, the deluge of rain continues, in fits and starts. |
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| In fructification oriented ethics, there is consequently no room for an uncommitted investor who would invest in companies in fits and starts, reserving the right to jump ship should the opportunity arise. |
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| It is a stammered, sleazy chronicle, told by fits and starts in bits and pieces, and constantly interrupted by the director and actors. |
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| Nevertheless, the process does advance, albeit in fits and starts. |
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| Needless to say, this was a difficult, frustrating process, marked by fits and starts as one side or the other pulled back from making the hard decisions needed for compromise. |
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| Advancement has been accomplished by fits and starts. |
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| This evolution has been characterized, as noted, by fits and starts. |
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| Under Constantine's successors, Christianization of Roman society proceeded by fits and starts, as John Curran documented in detail. |
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| The 28-year decentralization movement has advanced in fits and starts. |
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| It's a journey that will require each of us to persevere through setbacks, and fight for every inch of progress, even when it comes in fits and starts. |
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| Paying for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in fits and starts undermines US military planning and risks the gains made by US troops. |
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| You've survived the emotional fits and starts of the hiring process. |
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| Most foods are oxidized by fits and starts. |
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| In the next three years, he painted only by fits and starts. |
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| For too long, our future has been governed by fits and starts. |
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| Federal policy on women's health research has evolved by fits and starts. |
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| I spent the night in fits and starts, getting up and lying down full twenty times, and dreaming the same dream over and over again. |
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| The White Paper on Reform also stressed the introduction of an ongoing planning system that would be decidedly policy-led and would operate on a standing basis, thereby avoiding approaches by fits and starts. |
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| Thus, increasing globalization of the world's economy is absolutely inevitable, albeit in fits and starts, depending on geopolitical, economic, and other concerns. |
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| Her diaristic apparatus of fits and starts tempers that appetite for totality which was both the glory of spasmodism and its chief liability to derision. |
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| The development of commercial sound cinema had proceeded in fits and starts before The Jazz Singer, and the film's success did not change things overnight. |
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| Moving in fits and starts like rush-hour traffic, the story unfolds over several decades, told by protagonist Matilda Housewright, her brother, nephews and great-nephew. |
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