Intermittent attempts to down airplanes have been defeated, if only just.
In the 35 years since, the group's enormous talent (and intermittent reissues of their classic album) have meant that even if their profile has done anything but build, their steady audience has been given reason to remain devout and committed.
It is like a grey day with intermittent bursts of sunshine, and these occasional breaks in the cloud are what we mothers try to focus on.
Under the artists' unemployment insurance system, paid for by employers and workers' contributions, an actor or technician must work for 507 hours in 10-and-a-half months to gain benefits for the fallow periods between intermittent contracts.
Local people struggling with intermittent water supplies in the midst of a severe drought have also expressed irritation at the liberal use of sprinklers to keep the new course green.
Electricity is actually the biggest issue on people's lips – in a region famous for its oil, electricity is intermittent at best," he said.
Forest's threat was intermittent at best, though Robert Tesche, having sliced one effort disappointingly wide, drew an outstanding close-range save from Westwood after the Wednesday defence failed to clear a corner.
I think we can call this styling intermittent hipster.
With the yes and no campaign organisations already beginning to limber up, a late referendum holds out the prospect of the political class and the media being consumed by a subject that passionately engages a minority but is of only intermittent interest to the majority.
Low frequency, continuous sounds are far more comforting to distressed individuals than intermittent sounds, acoustic techniques which mothers tend to naturally use when trying to soothe newborn babies.
Food and income often became unexpectedly scarce in her hometown, which lies near the intermittent warzone area that marks the border between South Sudan, and its parent country and long-time opponent, the Republic of Sudan.
