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Intermittent in sentence

49 examples of Intermittent in a sentence

And my parents were very patient, but I had been doing intermittent sojourns to India on a mystical quest.
However, many continue to bear intermittent pain.
Also, these are intermittent sources.
Now, this shows up when you try to get the intermittent source to be above, say, 20 to 30 percent of what you're using.
The fights here are intermittent and not nearly as powerful or vicious as the fights in ROADHOUSE.
Through intermittent flashbacks, we learn a little more about Alice and her desire to leave tiny Milford.
I like this television show and I think that many people watch it as a form of escapist voyeurism...Voyeurism in this case is very positive, and many females in this series are very nice to look at...This show incorporates Las Vegas legends such as Wayne Newton as intermittent characters to authenticate the Las Vegas genre!!
Aside from some holes in the story and intermittent improbable dialog/events, this is an effective thriller worthy of your time to watch.
As directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant--who would become long-time partners and filmmakers--"The Guru" isn't bad; the locations are great and there are intermittent bits of satire that are certainly fashionable (for 1969, especially), yet ultimately there is too much ambiance and not enough plot.
By contrast, the real economy has spluttered along through ephemeral bouts of optimism and intermittent talk of downside risks.
Ukraine remains under partial occupation by Russian-backed separatists, with intermittent fighting still taking place, despite the Minsk II ceasefire agreement.
Rapid cost reductions are also being achieved in battery and other energy-storage technologies, bringing electric cars closer to economic viability and enabling flexible electricity supply even where a large percentage of power comes from intermittent sources.
Second, we need to store intermittent energy for times when the wind is not blowing, the sun is not shining, and rivers are not flowing strongly enough to turn hydroelectric turbines.
This will require the vast mobilization of zero-carbon energy sources such as wind, solar, and hydro power, implying a power system that can handle intermittent energy sources that depend on when the sun shines, how hard the wind blows, and how fast the rivers flow.
Indeed, the intermittent over-valuation of entire economic sectors – recall the dot-com bubble from a decade ago – indicates that financial markets are often excessively focused on the long term.
Student numbers have since rebounded, despite intermittent problems, but there remain severe limits on work and residency visas, which should serve as an enticement for the best and brightest to study in the US.
Every day more intermittent wind energy is deployed and in the not so distant future we will also see much more local energy production - for example from solar panels on buildings.
The Syrian opposition, by contrast, has received only intermittent assistance, and remains as fragmented as it was when the civil war began.
The most immediate question concerns the possibility of another Israel-Hezbollah war, fears of which have mounted throughout this year, fueled by reports of new missile transfers to Hezbollah and intermittent threats from Israel.
(This is also why simple calculations based on costs per kWh are often grossly misleading, helping to make wind and other intermittent renewables appear to be cheaper than they are.)
That investment needs to be matched by accelerated progress in battery technology, or by other tools to match electricity demand to intermittent supply.
Chinese companies already play a major role in all the major technologies needed to power the green economy, including photovoltaic panels, wind turbines, batteries, and the sophisticated systems required to manage the interaction of intermittent electricity supply and time-varying demand.
The fund is needed because, despite the arguments of the green-energy lobby and climate activists, today’s inefficient, intermittent solar and wind sources are not yet ready to take over from fossil fuels.
In addition to this, Ukraine has faced an intermittent gas war.
Would intermittent therapy be as useful as long-term treatment?
The problem is that green energy mostly is still much more expensive, less effective, and more intermittent than the alternatives.
As the Energy Transition Commission set out in its April 2017 report Better Energy-Greater Prosperity, power systems that are 85-90% dependent on intermittent renewables will be able by the 2030s to produce power at an all-in cost – including storage and any flexible back-up required – below that of fossil fuels.
China patiently bore this pattern of intermittent brinkmanship and timid reform, largely owing to its belief that the risks posed by the Kim dynasty could be controlled as long as China did not cut off the regime’s lifeline of oil, food, and other necessities.
But, because the sun does not always shine, and the wind does not always blow, energy from these sources is unstable and intermittent.
The economic arguments advanced against renewable sources of energy – that they can be expensive, intermittent, or not sufficiently concentrated – are easily rebutted.