Sentence examples for had periodically been from inspiring English sources

During Sunday Mass, for example, Sister Honora Nicholson had periodically been allowed to speak from the altar on spiritual issues after the priest's homily.

Officials for both hospitals said that while collaborations had periodically been discussed -- and abandoned -- for nearly a decade, the increasingly competitive health-care market in the city had made it virtually impossible to sustain two hospitals on the same block.

Messianic expectations were in the air as they had periodically been through the ages, but each generation defined their hope in pragmatic, nationalistic terms, usually as the overthrow of whatever was then their oppressive burden.

Bosworth, 26, has periodically been used at middle linebacker.

Users of Craigslist have periodically been victims of fraud, or worse.

The industry has periodically been shaken by protests and clashes between workers and the police.

And for the last 12 weeks, the club has periodically been late with their salaries.

Over the past several years, the regents of the Smithsonian Institution have periodically been criticized for conducting their business meetings in private.

Guesthouses in Kabul, some of them run by security companies, have periodically been targets for Taliban attackers.

Ovechkin, who has periodically been impersonating a bus running down pedestrians in a crosswalk, flattened Jagr at mid-ice.

The role of American companies in helping Chinese security forces has periodically been controversial in the United States.