The phrase "jittery state" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English
It refers to a state of nervousness or unease, and can be used to describe a person's emotional or mental state. Example: She sat in the waiting room, tapping her foot and biting her nails in a jittery state.
We must be in a jittery state for a slowdown in the rate of growth to be hailed as a triumph of recovery.
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets here today to protest a possible military strike against Iraq, chanting antiwar slogans and throwing this Renaissance capital into a jittery state of alert.
The reignited effort by Republican activists and donors to persuade Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey to run for president may say more about the jittery state of the party's major financial backers than it does about any possibility Mr. Christie will change his mind and announce a campaign.
Across a jittery nation, state and local officials, fearing retaliation for American air strikes in Afghanistan, continued putting in place new security measures.
All of this has experts, including Perry, worried about an era of renewed nuclear threat from jittery states and rogue actors.
Kohver's arrest came just two days after a landmark visit by Barack Obama to Tallinn, aimed at reassuring jittery Baltic states of his country's commitment to their security as Nato allies in the face of Russia's role in the Ukraine crisis.
Already jittery about the state of the regional Bell companies, investors were loath for Verizon to make that move.
Korean economists predicted that the North Korea scenario would drive away foreign investment, and the Asia Business Daily tried to calm jittery investors by stating: "Now is the time to buy".
In pursuing the principle of noninterference, we are eroding the principle of doing anything we please without being blasted away by jittery agents of the state.
Henshall reinforces this impression by playing Jerry as a man who proceeds through life in a state of jittery ignorance; he invests the character with the guilelessness of a man who seems oblivious, even to the fact that his own wife may be having an affair.
For the increasingly jittery members of the state's delegation in Washington, waiting for Albany to act has become a political version of "Survivor," with each of them wondering whether they will be the ones who will be voted out of existence.
