(1) But given the political economy of which he was a beneficiary, whatever steps he took to deal with the problem were bound to be halting and contradictory.(2) Women 57's progress in Irish politics is still slow and halting .(3) Some of the players have also been deeply unhappy about the media coverage of last Sunday's halting 36-11 victory over Japan in Townsville.(4) But since then, progress in the peace process had been halting .(5) And this is an album awash with effortless, halting , careless wordplay.(6) Gopinath's words are slow and halting , as he reconstructs for us the sparse and humble details of his life.(7) In the twilight era between the end of the conflict and the halting steps toward a future built around a power-sharing government for Catholics and Protestants, the IRA seems to have carved a new path.(8) Kelly was then called before a parliamentary committee, where, in halting , hesitant testimony, he neither fully confirmed nor discredited the BBC story.(9) And so the group made their slow and halting way back to Kathor.(10) His own breathing had been so halting in the last few hours that I thought at first it was probably another false alarm, but no, that was it.(11) Both as a product and a cause of the indecisive nature of combat, the operational tempo of war-as-process generally moved at a slow and halting pace.(12) He possesses a rich, warm, sonorous voice, betraying further evidence of his Englishness - a confident, erudite speaker, and yet punctuated with ums, ahs, and halting hesitancy.(13) The expansion or quality improvement has, however, been halting and has generally lagged behind demand and the population growth rate.(14) I've found phone conversations with some people can be halting and strained but having text with them is a witty, inspired exchange you hate to have to erase when your memory gets too full.(15) Her shaking hands cover her mouth and she walks backwards in slow, halting steps.(16) Ian thought he had offended her, until she began speaking, in slow, halting tones.
