Sentence examples for was held intermittently from inspiring English sources

A race called the Tour Feminin was held intermittently from 1984 to 2009, but the event was fraught with disasters including unpaid prize money, poor sponsorship, and even a legal battle over its name.

A military-managed national convention was held intermittently for 14 years to lay down guidelines for a new constitution, which is to lead to a general election in 2010 under a "road map to democracy" drawn up by the junta.

The Festival was held intermittently from 1970 until 1981, since when it has been held every year, except for "fallow years" intended to give the land, the local population and the organisers a break, usually taken every 5 years.

Civilian disaster exercises are being held intermittently, and gas masks have been distributed to the population.

The countries have been participants in the so-called six-party talks that have been held intermittently — and unsuccessfully — for years over ways to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.

Classes, after all, are held intermittently, if at all.

The U.N.'s special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, said his office was in "crisis mode" after the U.S. strike and called for an emergency meeting in Geneva, where long-running peace talks have been held intermittently, in response.

The survey, which has been conducted intermittently since 1977, found that doctors and scientists were held in the highest regard.

The hostages were held in a basement, where they were subjected to mock executions and were fed intermittently.

He's a writer who only writes intermittently because he's holding the fort a lot of the time.

Single gunshots were heard intermittently.