Exempel på fitful

• The throbbing stream echoes the pulsing rhythms of the "tumultuous seas," and an ordered metrical structure governs what had at first appeared fitful rhythmic motions.

• Nevertheless, the government carried on with its fitful campaigns of prosecution.

• They were worn out by years of fighting and frustrated by the indecisiveness of the fitful campaigns.

• In short, such religions aren't ' fitful ' on my account, for they have no practices that constitute fit.

• As these analysts suggest, this process is fitful, not linear and, as such, is not part of the standard internalist story.

• The politics of opposition were somewhat fitful during this period, with political associations never really taking off.

• What followed was a haphazard process of announced economic adjustment, followed by fitful implementation and calls for more private-sector investment.

• The fitful and irregular incidents of the market cannot for the greater part be reduced to order, and brought directly within the grasp of scientific machinery.

• If workers who were paid according to production gained more from this fitful, even speculative, extension of the working day, those who worked for fixed wages were exploited more intensively.

• The incidence of this tax is arbitrary and fitful.

• I cannot regard any fitful contacts which may occur, or which have occurred, as being satisfactory.

• It will entrench democracy and the principles of a modern economy in countries whose attachment to both has been fitful throughout the 20th century.

• The prospects of agriculture are gloomy to-day, but there are fitful gleams of light and hope.

• It is rather that the patient's mind is uncertain; it is fitful; it is variable; it has little certainty or clearness of purpose.

• When one is dealing with fitful power, there has to be standby plant.