Sentence examples for sporadic talks from inspiring English sources

The notion of "one China" was the basis of sporadic talks between Taiwan and China.

There have been sporadic talks on a bill to change the Republicans' much-maligned rules for holding presidential primaries.

THE NEGOTIATOR -- Throughout the secret talks last April, May and June and the sporadic talks the parties have had more recently, Paul Beeston, president and chief operating officer of Major League Baseball, served as the clubs' chief negotiator.

Sporadic talks are under way between the EU foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, and Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, on the possibility of a freeze in Iran's uranium enrichment programme.

More than a dozen members interviewed say they have been assiduously following news on television and in the papers on sporadic talks among parties to form a coalition government.

Obama's war advisers previously made it clear that the Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, must lead any high-level peace or "reconciliation" process involving Taliban leaders, and, since 2008, Karzai has carried out sporadic talks with current and former Taliban, occasionally aided by Saudi Arabia, but to no end.

For the last couple of years, the sporadic talk has been that he is getting slower, is less durable and is less a factor.

Sunil Gulati, the president of the United States Soccer Federation, said he understood the debate and conceded that there had been sporadic talk over the years about finding the national team a permanent home.

Both NGOs deliver emotional support to children and youth through informal and sporadic talk-therapy sessions usually scheduled at the directive of the youth or on drop-in basis.

But years of sporadic peace talks broke down in 2006.

Baradar engaged in sporadic reconciliation talks with Karzai's government until 2010.