The bizarrely funny scene, in tonight's third-season opener of "The Wire" on HBO, says a lot about the show's sporadic, off-kilter humor and its consistently expansive vision.
Because the narrative is driven by the sporadic off-screen narration of Komona (Rachel Mwanza) — a soft-voiced girl with spiky, braided hair, who is 12 when the story begins and 14 when it ends — "War Witch" barely acknowledges the political and economic factors behind the strife.
In addition to the sporadic off-target mutations induced by AID in B cells, APOBEC3A and 3B are thought to be responsible for many of the non-clustered/non-kataegic mutations at TpC dinucleotides observed not only in breast cancers but in other tumour types where the kataegic signature is not obviously present (Kuong and Loeb, 2013).
The Americans eventually retreated to a nearby C.I.A. annex, where they fended off sporadic small-arms fire.
A downturn in investment and exports has led to factory closings in southern China, resulting in mass layoffs and even setting off sporadic protests by workers who have complained that owners disappeared without paying them their wages.
A small but loud group of American fans from a nearby military base waved flags and shouted: "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" Italian fans disrupted the match by setting off sporadic firecrackers.
The court case is part of a wider confrontation between Pakistan's leading politicians, military generals and judges that has set off sporadic rumors of a military coup and is, at the very least, likely to result in early elections this year.
Well, I say it's a firing range, but there aren't actually any targets—just people letting off sporadic rounds in seemingly random directions.
Well, I say it's a firing range, but there aren't actually any targets – just people letting off sporadic rounds in seemingly random directions.
Sudan's modern history could accurately be described as perpetual war with some sporadic days off.
For many years I have taken sporadic days off work -- perhaps one every 2-3 morthsoor so -- and it really baffles me why people don't do it more.
