Sentence examples for have been jumpy from inspiring English sources

To a Popper-reading scientist, that's a little like saying: although there's no evidence that the sky is going to fall in, you should hide under your desk anyway.Since ministers flatly denied there was any danger to people from mad-cow disease, Britain's government and press have been jumpy about public health.

We had been jumpy for weeks, knowing that the books were in warehouses nearby, yet we couldn't get at them.

In Ohio, polling has been jumpy this month, with some surveys putting Clinton ahead by up to 30 points, while others indicate just a 5-point gap in the secretary's favor.

The markets have been intermittently jumpy since then.

After the war in Georgia, Polish public opinion has swung strongly in favour of the system.The Baltics have been even jumpier.

Americans have been put in a jumpy mood by grim global headlines, lending a "safety-first" edge to mid-term congressional elections on November 4th.In this section If the Republicans win the Senate.

Jumpy residents have been calling in at the slightest noise or strange movement, but several reported sightings have turned out to be false alarms.

While Jefferies' stock price later recovered — it ended the day down only about 3.7 percent — the incident showed how jumpy investors banks have been of late.

"It was certainly different and was not so jolly and jumpy up and down as it would have been".

But the grainy, jumpy videophone images being beamed back from Iraq would have been familiar to him.

The market has been so jumpy that a single egg may make all the difference, especially if it is fertile.