Sentence examples for jittery past from inspiring English sources

But one of these teams is going to the World Series -- either a team with a jittery past or a team with a shaky future.

But on the evidence of Huddersfield's jittery performance in squeaking past the Crusaders last Saturday, and the 60-point belting they received from Warrington in a cup-tie in the spring, the Wolves should have more than enough to bounce back from their latest Knowsley Road shocker.

PARIS — At a time when Europe's future seems so murkily ill-defined, when people fret about paychecks and their abrupt disappearance, a jittery currency and suffocating debt, the past might seem the last place to look for salvation.

The price upsurge was the main contributor to a revival of consumer-price inflation, which reached 5% last month, the highest level for more than seven years.In the past few months, a jittery government has sought to revive peasants' enthusiasm for grain by offering them direct subsidies.

At half-past 11 yesterday morning, jittery New Yorkers returned for a brief moment to Sept. 11, transported there by an explosion in the basement of an industrial building that rocked Chelsea.

Just watching the new government redress some past inequities makes some whites jittery.

Still, the bond market will remain jittery, and the large gains of the past few years will look like distant memories.

"Over the course of their brief reunion, Hannah and Annie reveal the present while they talk about the past, and the film explodes with jittery, hand-held flashbacks to match their buried emotions".

Obama needs his Democratic predecessor to reassure jittery voters that the future can look like the past, with a lower deficit, plenty of jobs and the two parties actually talking.

If the manifesto looks fearlessly to the future, seeking to replace the established order with something alto­gether new, the jeremiad is at once jittery and nostalgic, looking anxiously over its shoulder at a prelapsarian past.

The papery-voiced, blank-gazed Simon has a sentimental side, and the boldly inventive director has one, too; the raw emotions are nailed by the jittery, abrasive images, and the actors — memorably typecast — don't get past the boundaries of their roles.