Sentence examples for halting responses from inspiring English sources

Long pauses or halting responses caused by a lack of preparation could keep you from making it to the next stage.

The disciples offer halting responses: "John the Baptist; and others, Elijah," they say, "and still others, one of the prophets".

But some experts say a halting response by officials constitutes a neglect of duty by itself.

First there was Merkel's halting response to the Greek sovereign debt crisis of 2010.

Mr McBride's halting response revealed that he hadn't done his maths.

The halting response is similar to one given by the cinematic Billy, played by Jamie Bell, who finally describes the feeling as "electricity".

In China, after a halting response to the first SARS outbreak last fall, the authorities have ordered that everyone exhibiting SARS symptoms, including foreigners, must be hospitalized.

European leaders have bristled at criticism that their halting response to the crisis made things worse and insisted on stringent conditions for the required bailout.

The appointment of a war czar four years after the invasion of Iraq has struck some as a late and insufficient response to the crisis, and has been a reminder that the Administration, ever since its halting response to Hurricane Katrina, has been judged harshly on questions of competence.

And it comes on the eve of Mr. McCain's convention, with Republicans nervously watching Hurricane Gustav as it heads into the Gulf of Mexico, an unwelcome reminder of how the Bush White House's halting response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 hurt the president and his party politically.

And as if to hand Republicans uneasy with Mr. Trump's candidacy new reasons to be skeptical, his campaign offered a halting response on Tuesday to questions about why Ms. Trump's speech featured passages from Mrs. Obama's 2008 address at the Democratic convention.