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Taco development often occurs in parallel, in fits and starts.
China is likely to open up in fits and starts.
For centuries, new wall came up in fits and starts.
I think that it will be in fits and starts.
However, in fits and starts, the intelligence services have adapted.
He gets to those numbers, though, in fits and starts.
That could mean yields move higher in fits and starts.
Soothsayer Vietnamese This restaurant has developed in fits and starts.
But mortgage rates have reacted only in fits and starts.
Its popularity has grown in fits and starts since the 1990s.
Racial progress in America has always proceeded in fits and starts.
I've come slowly and in fits and starts to this view.
The I.P.O. has proceeded in fits and starts over three years.
However, the unemployment rate tends to move in fits and starts.
It's already happening in fits and starts on our mobile devices.
But negotiations over the budget have been in fits and starts.
But Belgium is, in fits and starts, reassessing its colonial past.
Instead, it moves in fits and starts that match its choppy interface.
Progress toward Mosul, like in Tikrit, has come in fits and starts.
Some media companies have pursued "hyperlocalization," but only in fits and starts.
Progress in U.S.-China trade talks is moving in fits and starts.
Peace efforts have been made in fits and starts but without progress.
Evidence-backed insight emerges in fits and starts and often contradicts itself.
In recent days, economic life has been resuming in fits and starts.
In recent days, economic life has been resuming in fits and starts.
Sticking around for a few more seasons, he played in fits and starts.
The Oscars improve at this conversation in fits and starts with every year.
In California, the world's largest cannabis industry has developed in fits and starts.
In other courtrooms, justice continues to be meted out, in fits and starts.
This acrostic didn't build steadily for me; it solved in fits and starts.
Racial dynamics were changing in the 1960s, but often in fits and starts.
They've been at it, in fits and starts, for more than a year.
But this is an industry that embraces new technologies only in fits and starts.
When I do get time to read for myself, it's in fits and starts.
A new protocol, called Diameter, is slowly lurching into place, in fits and starts.
"We've been escalating in fits and starts to higher standards of care," said Aikin.
The couple's relationship began, modestly, in 2010, and then proceeded in fits and starts.
Progress happens in fits and starts, a wild combination of study and happy accidents.
Still, the push toward legalizing abortion in Mexico has moved in fits and starts.
Dialogue always moves in fits and starts, and always seems naïve — until it works.
The fight over that scheme has been raging in fits and starts ever since.
But this summer, in fits and starts, it began to become a national story.
"On the Edge" is not a book you want to read in fits and starts.
The energy bill has progressed in fits and starts over the course of this Congress.
In fits and starts, it feels like the game I've grown to love throughout 2017.
Like many golfers when they turn pro, Fleetwood initially made progress in fits and starts.
The attempt by CBS to examine its workplace culture has proceeded in fits and starts.
Planning for a Second Avenue subway line has advanced in fits and starts for decades.
Peace talks happened in fits and starts in the 1990s, though outbursts of violence continued.
Because of the controversy and legal restrictions surrounding it, research has developed in fits and starts.
Though its name may be unfamiliar, its business model is, in fits and starts, catching on.
Manners change — in fits and starts, and often with some heel-dragging by the old guard.
Congress has examined these issues, in fits and starts, for much of the past two decades.
While Antoine was gone, planning for the Mackenzie Gas Project moved ahead in fits and starts.
It took him about a year of writing in fits and starts to finish the manuscript.
Individually, each experiment might seem manic, even obsessive, but they proceed, consecutively, in fits and starts.
Improvement happens in fits and starts, but my skill doesn't come close to matching my commitment.
Meanwhile, efforts to unify and strengthen the messaging around impeachment have proceeded in fits and starts.
Over the last few years, they've made more of them, even released some, in fits and starts.
The eurozone's second-biggest economy has been recovering "in fits and starts," says the country's statistical agency.
The US effort to take them into custody has moved in fits and starts in recent months.
The icy chasm, over 2500 feet wide, grew in fits and starts, at first garnering little attention.
Amazon launched its grocery delivery service in 2007, but haltingly expanded the service in fits and starts.
And yet Mafia 3 also exemplifies why character diversity in gaming only comes in fits and starts.
It was recorded in fits and starts, the production circling the drain of Daniel's worsening mental health.
Planning for the Second Avenue subway line has progressed in fits and starts for nearly a century.
"It's like any sort of new industry, it will certainly go in fits and starts," he said.
The Dow took out its February low on March 23, before heading higher in fits and starts.
While monotheism emerged in fits and starts, Aslan writes, it finally took hold among the ancient Israelites.
The President's attempts to build a relationship with Xi have proceeded in fits and starts since taking office.
From a distance, Mr. Ocean's return came in fits and starts, with release plans hinted at, then abandoned.
There's a natural trade off there, though the negotiations have gone in fits and starts in recent weeks.
The future comes in fits and starts, and we buckled up and went through a few this week.
It is true that at the Earth's surface, the warming seems to be proceeding in fits and starts.
The group grew in fits and starts, and Ellison bought the compound on the Bull Shoals lakefront in '76.
Patience: Presidents who have handled these diplomatic moments well understand that they normally take place in fits and starts.
From there, Stephenson begins to leap forward in time, in fits and starts, the story eventually spanning several decades.
"We're in a period where the market may act in fits and starts as we get new data," Merz said.
"They're trying to legislate in fits and starts instead of looking at a comprehensive plan," Rosen said of her vote.
All the while, the story of Gokseong unfolds in fits and starts, each puzzle piece more confusing than the last.
I fidget terribly at my desk, getting work done in fits and starts between sallies for Diet Coke or coffee.
Pay-Per-View began in fits and starts, first in 1951 using telephone lines, although satellite technology quickly outpaced PPV.
The less you know about the plot the better, since the story unfolds in fits and starts, present and past.
I lack the personal time to fully invest in loot-driven shooters, but have, in fits and starts, truly enjoyed them.
We will continue to voice our collective rage at a society that is changing, but only incrementally, in fits and starts.
It has a more diffuse, and more unusual focus on the community around those heroes, that works in fits and starts.
But he also said that progress can come in fits and starts, perhaps steeling his supporters for tough days to come.
The Dutch drive gained significant momentum in the late 1990s, though the process has moved forward since in fits and starts.
Since then, the A.I. field has progressed in fits and starts as new hardware, software and ideas slowly propelled it forward.
The caravan itself has been struggling in fits and starts in recent days to make its way up the Pacific Coast.
I slept in fits and starts, nodding off in between fantasies of sleeping in whatever fridge those beers came out of.
He doesn't keep a strict writing schedule; the quintet was composed in fits and starts over two and a half years.
In the years that followed, women's soccer languished in the country, growing only in fits and starts amid widespread national disinterest.
In fits and starts, China was evolving in a way that could make it more amenable to democratic reform in Hong Kong.
First, this book helped me understand that the economy is a living, breathing body and that progress comes in fits and starts.
Prosthetic technology has come a long way since hooked hands and peg-legs, but prosthetics have always advanced in fits and starts.
The box holds the first draft of a novel he's been working on, in fits and starts, for the last 20 years.
Progress has come in fits and starts, and the work of recounting her most painful memories for public consumption can be grueling.
Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould's Breaking Bad prequel sometimes felt uncertain of itself in season one — telling stories in fits and starts.
I've been thinking about the piece I had for exactly three years, in fits and starts, wondering how to write about it.
It grew in fits and starts over the past nine years and was never a sure thing in Tunisia until it was.
They start in an anonymous community, which may have been infiltrated by state actors, where the narrative develops in fits and starts.
It takes some ambitious swings and works on its own terms in fits and starts, all while not really working at all.
NP: So just looking at the industry right now, every telecom company is trying in fits and starts to become a contact company.
But due to technical problems, the votes have been released in fits and starts throughout the week, and a recanvass may be underway.
This tendency—of sensible drugs policy emerging in fits and starts several years after the crisis has taken off—seems set to continue.
This regression happens in fits and starts, with his teenage years being some of the most tumultuous because his body was constantly changing.
Roth points out that some lower courts offer live access to appellate arguments and that "pro-transparency reforms" come in fits and starts.
Mexicans opened up to the world with Nafta, not just in trade but also politically, with democracy advancing, albeit in fits and starts.
The action — Ulysses' struggle to break free of Calypso's hold, his return to Ithaca — comes in fits and starts, with unfortunate lulls throughout.
Though the early investigation progressed in fits and starts, by the time the trial began, the prosecution had amassed a trove of evidence.
Reynolds, a 36-year-old designer and startup founder from Cincinnati, Ohio, had been fending off burnout, in fits and starts, for years.
Though New York City has tried to desegregate its schools in fits and starts since the 1954 Supreme Court ruling in Brown v.
Sometimes they come in fits and starts, leaving me with cherished minutes of uninterrupted listening, but the rest of the time the problem persists.
Work on the Angra 3 reactor has advanced in fits and starts since the 1980s amid cost overruns and allegations of politically-driven decisions.
Twitch these days has somewhere north of 250,000 monthly active streamers, and that's growing in fits and starts; 5,000 this month, 15,000 the next.
For one, there's been a general uptick in venture investment activity in Canadian cloud companies, but that growth has come in fits and starts.
For some of them, this means a transformation—imperfect, and happening in fits and starts—of the way they look at race and immigration.
But navigating the world's complex urban and suburban environments will be a challenge for these machines and innovation will come in fits and starts.
Every time tension mounts, it cuts away to something else for a long while, only beginning to build tension again in fits and starts.
Mr. Trump's signature trade fight with China is also proceeding in fits and starts, and substantial differences remain before a deal can be reached.
The United States has worked only in fits and starts to build a format for talks and preliminary understandings to get substantive negotiations going.
Broadcom rallied and sold off in fits and starts in recent days after raising its bid for Qualcomm, an offer the latter subsequently rejected.
The two countries have cooperated in fits and starts over the last year against the cult-like terror group, which controls whole swaths of Syria.
It's not clear they can fill the empty space, nor, as they discover in fits and starts, can they easily return to life pre-Khemu.
Juve attacked in fits and starts and Mario Mandzukic had their first real effort with a powerful downward header which Casillas did well to hold.
Passenger Emilie Wyrick told the outlet they're moving in fits and starts—chugging along "very slowly" before coming to a halt every few hundred yards.
The result is a nostalgic movie that's entertaining only in fits and starts, which spends too much time idling to ever fully get into gear.
In fits and starts, I like Red Dead Redemption 2, but I don't know if I like Red Dead Redemption 2, if that makes sense.
The project has progressed in fits and starts for years, plagued by design and management problems that have led to long delays and ballooning costs.
The campaign has proceeded in fits and starts, and the American public remains skeptical that the United States has a plan to defeat the Islamic State.
OTHERS TARGETED Work on the Angra 3 reactor has advanced in fits and starts since the 1980s amid cost overruns and allegations of politically-driven decisions.
" Another official said discussions on this claim had occurred in "fits and starts for three decades," and that the settlement, "reduced a significant risk of liability.
That effort comes as he and his administration have raised the need for tax reform in fits and starts since the early days of his presidency.
Since Kim's grandfather, Kim Il-sung, first established a missile test site in 1984, North Korea's long-range missile development has come in fits and starts.
As I rocked him in my arms, Jon explained to me in fits and starts that he had spent the past two weeks in the hospital.
Thus did the afternoon slide by, as we alternated in fits and starts, and by his decree, between what was said on the record and off.
Progress has been made in fits and starts, but not nearly enough has been done to confront the planet-altering magnitude of what we have unleashed.
For Salvador, the answer comes in fits and starts, in the burnished images of his childhood, in an old lover's passion, in the power of art.
Over the next few decades, such a program can provide the breathing room necessary for Iraqis to construct—in fits and starts—a stable political order.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates — albeit in fits and starts — since the end of 2015 based on its own form of economic orthodoxy.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates — albeit in fits and starts — since the end of 2015 based on its own form of economic orthodoxy.
In DNA replication, the "leading" strand forges ahead, adding letters as it goes, while the "lagging" strand follows behind, connecting the double helix in fits and starts.
The melt season is likely to proceed in fits and starts from here on out, with refreezing taking place in most areas of the island this month.
And in that way, it feels real all the way through in a way that the big blockbuster games only manage to do in fits and starts.
People are regaining their social lives in fits and starts, as security allows, and expressions of the culture Mr. Bukar once enjoyed spring up in unexpected ways.
United has fired only in fits and starts, struggling to overcome resilient but unremarkable Premier League fodder, while impressing in the League Cup and the Europa League.
He's wearing next to nothing, and you can tell he's upset by the stricken look on his face and the way he thrashes in fits and starts.
Both elements work in fits and starts, but they tend to offset each other, yielding a film more enjoyable for individual moments than any sort of cohesive whole.
Within a couple years, North Korea began advancing its development of nuclear devices and missiles, in fits and starts at first but more consistently as time went by.
"The housing market is improving, though in fits and starts and not uniformly across the nation," said Joel Naroff, chief economist at Naroff Economic Advisors in Holland, Pennsylvania.
After a recount that proceeded in fits and starts and took more than five weeks before being settled at the Supreme Court, Mr. Bush won by 537 votes.
Many in Iran's moderate and reformist faction are guardedly optimistic that the country is changing, albeit in fits and starts, and always subject to reversals by hard-liners.
As for Wyoming, we see it in fits and starts: icy plains and peaks, whose purpose is less to dazzle us than to wall in the dramatis personae.
The 1990s led to relative economic openness, but in fits and starts as Mr. Castro and his brother Raúl, who took over presidential powers in 2006, limited change.
The glacier has shrunk in fits and starts; its greatest reductions have occurred in years in which the monsoon faltered, depriving the glacier of much of its snowfall.
Instead, she slept in fits and starts, although the normal sleep brain wave rhythms were typical, with the usual transitions into and out of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.
The new observations seem to suggest that the young stars may grow in fits and starts brought on by gravitational instability in the disk of material surrounding the star.
But I've carried my faith with me, in fits and starts, over the years, and several years ago I became a member of the Riverside Church in New York.
The agency has tried to unilaterally apply securities law to this new innovation in fits and starts, making investment more uncertain and development more expensive in the United States.
So strong, perhaps, that she's all but retreated from the spotlight, and in a comeback that's taken place in fits and starts, has been struggling to reorient her sound.
The case began in February and has proceeded in fits and starts, partly because Mr. Levandowski has resisted providing information on the files he has been accused of stealing.
Since then, the price has risen in fits and starts, in part because of continuing hacking and fraud, and because of fights over the direction of the Bitcoin network.
It's that Rent's interpretation of it only commits in fits and starts; it's never fully convincing, even when it's being performed by a protagonist who supposedly harbors rockstar dreams.
The negotiations, to end a guerrilla conflict that is now more than 50 years old, have been proceeding in fits and starts since at least as far back as 2012.
As the government maintained its grip on speech in the intervening years—a period known as normilizace (normalisation)—a revived Literarni noviny was published in fits and starts in exile.
Its demise will make the rate of technological progress less predictable; there are likely to be bumps in the road as new performance-enhancing technologies arrive in fits and starts.
People with "relapsing remitting" disease experience MS in fits and starts — their symptoms show up for a few days or weeks, followed by weeks, months, or even years of remission.
The question is if Rare can be nimble enough to capitalize on what makes Sea of Thieves, sometimes in fits and starts, special and interesting and weird and beautifully different.
After moving in fits and starts for nearly two hours, the line came to a permanent halt; hundreds, if not thousands, were turned away because of a lack of space.
Watching young rappers try to build a legacy in fits and starts was a reminder of how challenging it can be to embed yourself firmly in the genre's collective memory.
In an industry that makes progress in fits and starts, the only way to make substantial change is to aim straight for the roots — the stagnant rot of systemic bias.
Related: 'Children Are Eating Leaves Off the Trees': The Nightmare of the Siege of Madaya, Syria For the past six months, the deal has been implemented in fits and starts.
Like what occurs in most industries, the production and distribution of board games has happened in fits and starts, and drawing out that history is often harder than you might think.
Still, trade negotiations between the United States and China have progressed in fits and starts, so many investors and analysts have scaled back expectations for a resolution in the near term.
The Senate wrote its own bill, a vastly different version, in May and legislators have been working for the past seven months, in fits and starts, to compromise over the details.
I'm talking about Achim Freyer's staging of Enescu's "Oedipe," a solemn but seething adaptation of the Oedipus myth that its composer worked on in fits and starts from 1910 to 1931.
I'm talking about Achim Freyer's staging of Enescu's "Oedipe," a solemn but seething adaptation of the Oedipus myth that its composer worked on in fits and starts from 1910 to 1931.
Chiron grows up poor and black in low-income housing in Miami, and he's also slowly trying to come to terms with his homosexuality, something he only confronts in fits and starts.
For years, Washington has set tax policy in fits and starts, creating targeted tax breaks for particular industries and often setting them to expire, to minimize the projected loss to federal revenues.
For some reason, my solve today gained momentum as words filled in, almost like a themed puzzle, instead of solving like one of those Saturday frustrations that comes in fits and starts.
It moves in fits and starts, able to suddenly, wondrously impress with a gigantic moment, and then frustrate when it cuts corners to get characters exactly where it needs them to be.
This is a world where the economy will simply move slower, where restaurants or certain jobs that require large quantities of people to work in factories may open in fits and starts.
The transition from mostly white to mostly black in Ferguson and surrounding municipalities has been happening for decades in fits and starts, and remnants of the old guard can still be seen.
In fits and starts, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been trying to build up a homegrown defense industry that can supply more of India's needs and even export weapons to other nations.
For most of the current century, the men's marathon world record has crept forward in fits and starts, from Khalid Khannouchi's 473:05:38 at the 2002 London Marathon to Mr Kimetto's best.
America adopted DST in fits and starts, kept it going all year long (how can you tell?) during World War II, and finally made it national in 1966, unless a state opted out.
Perhaps the most important thing we've learned about sea level by studying Earth's past is that it doesn't rise linearly—it goes in fits and starts, accelerating dramatically as the ice sheets disintegrate.
Legislatures have reformed the process in fits and starts over the last two centuries, beginning in 1850, when Ohio's new constitution prescribed the manner in which the state's district lines would be drawn.
The priorities the Saudis are making make sense in the context of the more bitter and much longer-running Sunni-Shia war that's been going in fits and starts since the year 632.
President Donald Trump has been telling anyone who will listen that Obamacare is failing — dead, even — as congressional Republicans have struggled in fits and starts to repeal and replace the health care law.
Even under American administrations that brought more time, expertise and discipline to the task, negotiations and engagement with North Korea have proceeded in fits and starts, ultimately ending in failure and greater mistrust.
It's only now that PV is starting to filter into those in-between markets in earnest, as legacy regulatory, legal, and financial structures are jury-rigged to accommodate it, in fits and starts.
The Lakers have a league-high five players aged 23.5 or younger playing at least 23.2 minutes a night, but they're all progressing in fits and starts and flashing their skills at different rates.
Local police and the FBI have been battling MS-13 in fits and starts for the better part of a decade, but the president hyped the gang's danger with unusual bluster—even for him.
He could be an exception (like Towns was), but the safe bet is on him flashing the skills that will make him a positive contributor in the future in fits and starts for now.
Changes are going to come in fits and starts, but bear watching to see how far and how fast the telecom conglomerates push their new freedoms — and how that changes consumers' access and bills.
The idea of imposing restrictions on parents' dress has taken root in fits and starts in recent years, primarily in an effort to discourage adults from wearing inappropriate or revealing clothing on school campuses.
Belgium striker Romelu Lukaku came in from Everton and has had success in fits and starts but Chile international Alexis Sanchez, reportedly the highest-paid player in the league, has been an unmitigated flop.
But, but, but: Another view would be that it says something deeper about the industry in a world slowly transitioning to cleaner sources and, in fits and starts, getting more serious about global warming.
His career had been moving in fits and starts — beatboxing and rapping in "Pitch Perfect," playing Mindy Kaling's younger brother on "The Mindy Project," a stint in a pop-rap trio called the Beatards.
In fits and starts, the president has whittled down the remaining prison population, citing the high expense of imprisoning people there and portraying its continued operation as a symbol that fuels anti-American sentiments.
The lead changed hands time and again as the teams played in fits and starts, with Barca producing a strong third quarter performance to turn a 50-39 halftime deficit into a 62-58 lead.
The shift in attitude has come in fits and starts over the last few weeks, seemingly more as an organic turn in the political season than as a product of coordinated action by party leaders.
Over the years, in fits and starts, some justices have sought to address this anomaly by casting a "courtesy fifth" vote to stay an execution when four justices thought the case worthy of further consideration.
More important, North Korea has moved in fits and starts to build a nuclear weapons capability that may be as large as 60 nuclear weapons, including a small number that can strike the United States.
"He said things in fits and starts and I took quotes from different parts of the interview and made them cohesive," said Mr. Blasengame, who now owns and runs a music club in Portland, Ore.
It has grown not gradually and continuously, but in fits and starts, usually in response to foreign and domestic crises — the World Wars and the Cold War, the Great Depression and the 2008 financial crisis.
Mr Xi faces no such democratic checks, but China's ruling party is split between rival interest groups, and economic policy is often implemented in fits and starts as party leaders try to reconcile their competing demands.
Government operations Violence in Rakhine state has occurred in fits and starts in recent years, with the latest outbreak beginning in the wake of numerous attacks by militants on several government border posts in October 2016.
Government operations Violence in Rakhine State has occurred in fits and starts in recent years, with the latest outbreak beginning in the wake of numerous attacks by militants on several government border posts in October 2016.
The commercial shrimp fishery in New England sputtered into existence in fits and starts from 1927 to 1938, but fishermen had long been eating the shrimp they had caught in their nets while seeking other fish.
Shortly after Wednesday trading began on Wall Street, the S&P 500 dipped and then climbed past 2,880 in fits and starts as the 30-year Treasury yield went below 2% again, hitting a record low.
The big picture: Research in the field has progressed in fits and starts since the term "artificial intelligence" was coined in the 1950s by American computer scientist John McCarthy, alternating between periods of hibernation and feverish activity.
"Dollar gains stemming from trade developments are likely to come in fits and starts given that the outlook for a meaningful agreement remains elusive," said Joe Manimbo, senior market analyst at Western Union Business Solutions in Washington.
In " Wonderstruck ," Julianne Moore plays a museum worker who keeps the skyline up to date with new buildings, but no such job exists in real life—the Panorama, like the city, has modernized in fits and starts.
Since then, as the pro-democracy camp has gained traction in fits and starts, the leadership on the mainland has remained steadfast in its view of Hong Kong as a Chinese territory that ultimately answers to Beijing.
The goalposts on who Wade has deferred to has shifted, from LeBron to Chris Bosh to Goran Dragic, and in fits and starts—he is, habitually, an alpha dog—but he has acquiesced to all but the latest.
Recorded in fits and starts in three different cities, John Elliott's latest release as Imaginary Softwoods is a rarities collection of sorts—compiling four years' worth of ostensibly unconnected work into a tape-warmed tapestry of sequenced ambience.
Like tectonic plates, the blocks don't slide smoothly but in fits and starts: They'll typically stick together for seconds at a time, held in place by friction, until the shear stress grows large enough that they suddenly slip.
"Trump engages in fits and starts and then undermines his side's negotiating positions half the time," said Tim Miller, a former communications director for the Republican presidential campaign of Jeb Bush, and a partner at Definers Public Affairs.
People with "relapsing remitting" MS — or 85 percent of people with the disease — experience it in fits and starts: their symptoms show up for a few days or weeks, followed by weeks, months, or even years of remission.
After impressing in fits and starts under André Villas-Boas, it came as something of a surprise when his sale to Cardiff was announced for around £10m, but it didn't take long for disappointed fans to change their minds.
The first option of doing very little also means that the trade war is likely to continue its current trend of escalating in fits and starts until all exports and imports between the two countries are subject to tariffs.
Monday's sit-down is the most substantial attempt yet by both leaders to make progress on the 15-month-old thaw, a process that has proceeded in fits and starts amid longstanding disputes over economics, politics and human rights.
That was the explanation I got from a lot of people on Twitter: My theory that people weren't finishing the story, or were reading it in fits and starts, was backed up by the data I got from Pocket.
Starring John Huston, "The Other Side of the Wind" was filmed in fits and starts in the early to mid-'70s, but its completion was stymied by ownership complications; financial hurdles and a revolution; and Welles's death in 1985.
The highly unusual decision to go mostly dark in advance of the debate is emblematic of Trump's approach to television advertising in the general election, a patchwork effort that has engaged in swing states only in fits and starts.
But the Grammys' relationship with rap has progressed in fits and starts, with the awards often going to the anodyne — most recently in 2014, when the white rapper Macklemore won in three of four current rap categories over Mr. Lamar.
Even as the administration is plagued by scandals and leaks, and the Republican legislative agenda is moving in fits and starts, the enthusiasm with which this administration has taken to immigration enforcement is shaping up to be its biggest success.
But remember that America is a story told over a longer time horizon, in fits and starts, punctuated at times by hardship, but ultimately written by generations of citizens who've somehow worked together, without fanfare, to form a more perfect union.
The proposal for an interview to last about four to five hours shows how the long-running discussions have moved in fits and starts over the past months as the Trump legal team pushes for an end to the investigation.
The exemptions for allies that had been initially proposed were considered a potential piece of the ongoing negotiations with Canada and Mexico over a revised North American Free Trade Agreement, negotiations that have continued in fits and starts for months.
The administration stopped short of mandating the use of smart guns by federal agencies but said it saw promise in committing more federal money and attention to a technology that has evolved in fits and starts over more than two decades.
The story progresses in fits and starts; every time you feel like you've locked into it, it seems to slam on the brakes and veer off around the corner, or to change the radio station before the current song is over.
Twitter, Amazon, YouTube, and Facebook have all promised to cleanse their sites of this dangerous disinformation, but they are doing so in fits and starts and by relying in part on familiar, passive tools like acting when others flag dangerous content.
Obama's middle road – gradually increasing modest levels of aid in fits and starts, while talking tough and drawing illusory red lines – is producing none of the benefits and most of the drawbacks of full-on American support for the rebels.
But a store of value should not bounce around as much as this one does: bitcoin swung from more than $1,100 in late 2013 to less than $200 a year later, before climbing, in fits and starts, to its current dizzying heights.
Phone-based AR has been growing in fits and starts for the last few years, and Snapchat (and, of course, Instagram and Facebook) has sort of been bringing it to the masses with filters for your face and the world around you.
While it's possible to admire the film's passion and ambition, given the auspices "Detroit" is less accomplished than it could have been -- a vehicle that succeeds in Bigelow's stated goal of triggering a conversation but delivers as a movie in fits and starts.
Critic's Notebook For a decade and a half, grime — the rugged, fast-paced British hip-hop offshoot — has been remarkably durable, one of England's most vibrant and innovative music scenes, while also seeping out in fits and starts to the broader world.
COMMODITIES THE KEY The first option of doing very little also means that the trade war is likely to continue its current trend of escalating in fits and starts until all exports and imports between the two countries are subject to tariffs.
COMMODITIES THE KEY The first option of doing very little also means that the trade war is likely to continue its current trend of escalating in fits and starts until all exports and imports between the two countries are subject to tariffs.
They have been moving upward in fits and starts since, including a full percentage point in the last year alone to nearly 5 percent — still low by historical standards, but high compared with the ultralow levels that had enabled these huge price gains.
As for L.G.B.T.Q. people, "coming out" has gotten safer in fits and starts, not only in the wake of the Obergefell decision but also in other ways: L.G.B.T.Q. people are now visible in a way that was inconceivable half a generation ago.
"Stocks have proceeded in fits and starts this week, mostly thanks to the U.S. holiday, but the absence of a real bounce in Asian markets does lend strength to the bearish case", said IG analyst Chris Beauchamp, referring to the U.S. July 4 holiday.
And its I.P.O. process has proceeded in fits and starts over the past three years, pausing several times over the complications of readying its finances and operations — long shrouded in secrecy, even as it gushed wealth for its kingdom — for the scrutiny of public investors.
While there undoubtedly has been an inexorable leftward trend in American public policy since the Progressive era of the early 6900th century, this trend largely has been incremental in nature and has advanced in fits and starts, with the exception of the New Deal.
While Duplex is extremely impressive in fits and starts (I've tried it, and it's capable of fooling the listener for a quick reservation, if all goes well), the neural network requires a tremendous amount of data to improve, even though it's essentially limited to a single task.
If you can pay attention to the clock, the rapidly increasing purchase totals, and all the pretty colors bouncing around the screen all at the same time, you'll notice that activity goes in fits and starts that roughly follow the active hours of the average U.S. citizen.
But the choreography, inextricably wedded to the music, happens in fits and starts; it hits the spot but carries none of the weight of the dream ballet in "Oklahoma!" or of the multitude of dances in "The Prom," another show that wasn't nominated for its choreography.
It is "a very hopeful place, filled with yearning, where people every day, particularly women I think, are in very small ways testing the limits of what is permissible, trying to define in fits and starts who they want to be as a country," he said.
Taking place in New York City's Madison Square Garden for the first time — for decades, the VMAs have switched between slightly smaller venues in New York and LA — the production moved in fits and starts, with obvious sound and organizational issues cramping most of the performances.
In other footnotes, Tuten steps back from his early self and gives the reader a wide-angle shot: There was little to show for my six years of writing because I worked in a totally undisciplined, desultory fashion, in fits and starts, in moods exultant and despairing.
For me, the relief and rebalancing came in fits and starts, and an essential piece of that was relearning on a visceral level that not every morsel I ate every day would be wonderful — in fact, that such a day is extremely rare, no matter who you are.
Instead, they probe one another's hearts, souls and sore spots the way we all do with our co-workers, in fits and starts, by making desultory small talk, by not letting on what's really taking place inside, until gradually intimacy grows and friendship blooms (and perhaps withers, too).
In 2008, when he was president -- with his old sparring partner Yasser Arafat now dead, and efforts to secure peace still struggling along in fits and starts -- he told me that he had come to believe in the importance of hearing and understanding the story of the other.
The reason city and state governments have taken to regulating vaping in fits and starts—banning it indoors in some cases, for instance—is that the F.D.A. in 2017 proposed allowing e-cigarettes to remain on sale until at least 2022 as it decided how to handle them nationally.
In that time they've seen the city's technology scene evolve in fits and starts, but now, with companies like Snap, Dollar Shave Club and Oculus bringing billions of dollars down from Silicon Valley, a wave of investor interest has followed — and with their new fund they stand to reap the benefits.
The gathering of works in Chelsea reconfigures the general sense of Twombly (1928-2011) as a lanky, slow-moving, ever-relaxed Southerner who worked in fits and starts and soaked up the good life on Italy's Amalfi Coast or in Lexington, Va. — his birthplace, to which he returned in his later years.
Then one day in the future, whether in fits and starts or propelled by a Category 5 hurricane, the ocean will roar past the marina and the town hall annex and the shed that houses the volunteer fire department, and all of Yankeetown will slip permanently under the surface of the sea.
Work crews have repaired storm-damaged Puerto Rico's electricity grid in fits and starts over the last 250 months, but they had never managed to light up Ms. Méndez's mountaintop home — until Tuesday, when she became among the last residential customers of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority to have service restored.
The F.B.I. has been pushing, in fits and starts, since 2010 for legal changes that would require tech companies to help it gain access to secured data, saying the ability of law-enforcement officials to carry out court-approved wiretaps and searches is "going dark" because of the spreading use of encryption.
As described in "The European Union: A Citizen's Guide", a provocative new book by Chris Bickerton, a Cambridge academic, the EU's integration has proceeded in fits and starts, consumed by crises like de Gaulle's "empty chair" of 1965, or even reversals, like the failed attempt to construct a west European army in the early 1950s.
But progress at the pro level had come in fits and starts for Henry, and to truly unlock his potential and save the team's season, the Titans did something drastic: They benched Marcus Mariota, the quarterback they had drafted with the No. 220.2 overall pick in 250 to be the face of the franchise.
As per Star Wars tradition, news about The Last Jedi has been trickling out in fits and starts, thanks to the combination of Lucasfilm and Disney's aversion to spoilers and a meticulously honed publicity campaign that only lets us in on Stars Wars secrets when said publicity campaign decides it's time for us to know them.
As can happen at mostly peaceful protests, vandalism erupted in fits and starts: According to police, protesters—some of whom were armed with hammers and trash cans—smashed Starbucks and Bank of America windows, torched a parked limo, set (purchased) "Make America Great Again" souvenirs aflame, and sprayed "Revolution or Death" on walls of local buildings.
Harry Nilsson's "Jump into the Fire" kicks in as the first line is snorted, and the pace picks up as Henry unravels: Mick Jagger's "Memo from Turner," The Who's "Magic Bus," The Rolling Stones' "Monkey Man," George Harrison's "What Is Life," and Muddy Waters' "Mannish Boy" all come and go in fits and starts like a schizophrenic jukebox.
The roots of the phrase are commonly traced to a July 2013 Facebook post by Alicia Garza, a California-based activist, but it appeared in the Twitter-friendly form #BlackLivesMatter only in fits and starts over the course of the following year, according to a Pew Research Center analysis on race and social media released this month.
For the most part, that plan worked: Liverpool's fullbacks will have rarely had a less effective afternoon from open play; stymied by United's back three, the league leader's fabled forward line could play only in fits and starts, swarming for brief spells but blunted for much of the game; often, Liverpool's defense seemed hurried in possession, chased and pressed by United's forwards.
The international rollout of the Oculus Rift has been happening in fits and starts, but today the VR headset takes a big plunge into markets outside the US. Oculus has announced that the Rift will be available to buy in a number of European and Canadian stores from September 20th, with online preorders from the same retailers starting today for a suggested price of £549 or €699.
That side comes through in fits and starts during our afternoon together—when more of his friends showed up at the office, he instantly went from reserved artist to joke-cracking guy happy to be away from home for a few days—but he was also a little more subdued, a little more hesitant, the sign of someone who isn't quite comfortable in inherently awkward press situations just yet.
Honestly, you don't need to go beyond the report's table of contents to understand how deeply screwed up the situation is: The report's language sounds exasperated in sections, and it's an understandable tone to take: the recall has grown in fits and starts over the past year, and will take several additional years to fully resolve — assuming automakers can even get safe parts into their vehicles, which they aren't yet doing consistently.
The thousands of hours of development work has been tough on Watkins—he said he regularly suffers from spells of burnout, and development on SleepyHead has gone in fits and starts depending on his own health and job situation (he is currently looking for paid development work.) "I've been on the sidelines away from the workforce as a stay at home dad, which while it has been beneficial to the SleepyHead project and my daughter, it hasn't exactly been so beneficial for my family's long term wellbeing," he said.

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