"I'm not up here to ask for sympathy or forgiveness," he said in a rambling statement to the court before the sentencing, intermittently holding back tears and shuffling papers.
Welles pauses the film's action intermittently to hold court with the audience from his edit bay, explaining choices of direction or apologizing for deceitful behavior pinpointing halfway through a story about the late Pablo Picasso as precisely when he just started making up facts.
Civilian disaster exercises are being held intermittently, and gas masks have been distributed to the population.
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.
A military-managed national convention was held intermittently for 14 years to lay down guidelines for a new constitution, which is to lead to a general election in 2010 under a "road map to democracy" drawn up by the junta.
Classes, after all, are held intermittently, if at all.
The Festival was held intermittently from 1970 until 1981, since when it has been held every year, except for "fallow years" intended to give the land, the local population and the organisers a break, usually taken every 5 years.
The U.N.'s special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, said his office was in "crisis mode" after the U.S. strike and called for an emergency meeting in Geneva, where long-running peace talks have been held intermittently, in response.
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.
