"By fits and starts, we are moving to a more efficient marketplace for innovation," Mr. Epstein said.
By fits and starts, by virtue of better laws and pressure from often antagonistic "stakeholders," dams have been leveled, streams cleaned up, fish populations restored.
By fits and starts, this exhibition reveals the complicated fusion of the personal, the painterly and the Conceptual that informs Ms. Peyton's work.
By fits and starts, designers have been moving away from romantic clothes, which may be why many of the New York collections looked nice but superfluous.
By fits and starts over the years they have let in some fresh air, opening the economy somewhat and cautiously allowing more religious and social freedoms.
By fits and starts, the movie inches forward, almost reluctantly, as if the director, Cam Archer, were afraid of being too obvious.
By fits and starts I have come to realize that Iran is inexorably filling the vacuum of the defunct Ottoman Empire in the Middle East.
Stuff happens, mostly by fits and starts.
Most foods are oxidized by fits and starts.
He was seized by fits of uncontrollable laughter and experienced hallucinations.
Rather than pine, one panics and then moves rapidly to despair, accompanied by fits of moaning.
