The perceived lack of political push from the centre resulted in spasmodic and unstructured attempts to introduce screening programmes locally.
The history of the creative manipulation of words in the last hundred years is, in common with other areas of sound art, disparate and spasmodic.
Observations carried on month after month at one spot are of more value than spasmodic research in diverse districts.
Some could be described as being extremely active while others exercised on a more spasmodic basis.
However, in the 1990s, such studies were spasmodic and rare.
These disorders are distinguishable from tics in that they consist of voluntary movements and are not spasmodic.
They accompany overall tensing of the limbs, clenching the fists, or other spasmodic movements.
Two large males engaged in spasmodic fighting over the female, while the others sparred among themselves.