Sentence examples for held intermittently from inspiring English sources

Civilian disaster exercises are being held intermittently, and gas masks have been distributed to the population.

Testimony in the trial is held intermittently because of the court's busy schedule.

The ceasefire has held intermittently for four days, and hundreds of families have escaped the town.

The countries have been participants in the so-called six-party talks that have been held intermittently — and unsuccessfully — for years over ways to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.

A race called the Tour Feminin was held intermittently from 1984 to 2009, but the event was fraught with disasters including unpaid prize money, poor sponsorship, and even a legal battle over its name.

The Duroc proved particularly suitable for feeding in the United States Corn Belt; by the 1930s it was the predominant breed in the United States, a distinction it held intermittently throughout the century.

For several years in the 1980s Jonathan held, and intermittently occupied, the Goldsmid chair in the department of Hebrew and Jewish studies at University College London.

In late January, Le Canard Enchaîné, a satirical paper with a penchant for going after stodgy men, revealed that Fillon's wife, Penelope, had received five hundred thousand euros in compensation from the Parliament over five years for her work as an assistant (Fillon has held positions intermittently in both chambers since 1981).

Akbar is a highly successful Indian journalist and author who has worked in politics and held office intermittently since 1989.

The Rashtrakutas held Kannauj intermittently during a period of a tripartite struggle for the resources of the rich Gangetic plains.

A loyal party man who has held cabinet posts intermittently since 1976, Mr. Landry, as finance minister since 1996, carried out Mr. Bouchard's strategy of making independence appealing to voters by reviving Quebec's economy.