Sentence examples for very halting from inspiring English sources

It was jammed, of course, because drivers grow very halting in the rain.

But you worry three to five years from now whether we'll be safe when the next Al Qaeda arrives, because what we're doing domestically to make ourselves safer is very halting, slow and incomplete".

"I predict that the Iraqi government in a very halting and stumbling fashion, frustrating to us on many occasions, will move forward and progress".

She testified at the trial one day last week, answering only a few questions in a very halting voice; her husband and her brother-in-law, who was driving the Explorer, stayed in court throughout the trial, sitting quietly in chairs facing the judge along the partition that separates lawyers from the spectators.

But unlike the examples I cited above, Japanese policymakers met the crisis with prolonged denial and then, when conditions forced recognition of the severity of the problem, very halting steps to address it.

NBC's Brian Williams, who attended a dinner with Reagan in mid-2008, recalled, "Mrs. Reagan's vision isn't what it always was so she was taking very halting steps as a lot of folks her age do... [I]t is so important for folks in her age bracket and in her bracket of life to remain upright and captain of their own ship.

When answering questions without a script, Mr. Blakeman said, "his speech is very halted, and you can see him take a lot of time to think about what he's going to say".

'He is extremely scripted, and he is cautious to the max and afraid of gaffes.' When answering questions without a script, Mr. Blakeman said, 'his speech is very halted, and you can see him take a lot of time to think about what he's going to say.'" And Lee reported that "the teleprompter malfunctioned a few times last summer and Obama delivered some less-than-soaring speeches".

This means reversing or at the very least halting the explicit push towards greater concentration of research funding that has characterized UK research policy for decades.

The hulking second-year runner out of Oregon was very nearly halted at the line of scrimmage but he kept churning his legs and battering would-be tacklers all the way for six.

Perhaps worst of all, he has failed to persuade investors that the Federal Reserve, which was formed in 1913 for the very purpose of halting market panics, is up to the job.