Sentence examples for twitches from inspiring English sources

Whatever the impact, it would be a mistake to confuse the twitches of an economy on life-support with a lasting recovery.

As the sun sets the guards glare eyeball-to-eyeball, give extravagant arm twitches, and then lower flags and slam shut the gates.

The World Bank updated its forecast for the world economy, which it now expects to shrink by 1.7% in 2009.Another couple of twitches were detected in moribund housing markets.

Bosnia has been without a central government since elections seven months ago.An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 shook Spain's southern Murcia region, killing at least ten people, the worst tremor in the country for 50 years.It's a tough job...There were some twitches of life in the Republican race for president.

Meanwhile, up the coast in Silicon Valley, the median price paid for a single-family home in October was, at $530,000 ,5% higher than in September.Because consumers respond more quickly than companies to stockmarket twitches, especially when, as is increasingly the case, their purchases are implicitly backed by stock options, commercial markets have mostly been more buoyant than residential ones.

The United States, too, twitches at the prospect of Mr Erdogan taking over, lest he be loth to co-operate against terrorism and ends Turkey's cosy military relationship with Israel.

The needle on a pressure gauge twitches ever further into the red.

Despite its occasional unfairness to others and its tics and twitches, there is, indeed, a certain grandeur to this view of life.

If accompanied by atrophy and weakness, brief, irregular, involuntary twitches of muscles that do not lead to the movement of a joint but are visible and can be felt by the patient may be a symptom of serious underlying motor neuron disease (see below Diseases and disorders: The peripheral system).

Thus, the harmony in the colourful blare of the early works came to be succeeded by an art that seemed to give form to elusive nervous twitches, to sudden motions, and to heartbeats accelerating only to falter and start again.

Susan wrings her hands and twitches as she speaks, jerking her head from side to side.