If I talk about migraine, 40 percent of the population suffer episodic headaches.

Sometimes she cries over past sins an episodic orgy with a totally strange boy followed by an abortion.

None of these options is easy each entails serious difficulties and great risks. Episodic muddling through may be the best that can be hoped for.

Jia s movie is episodic four loosely linked stories about lone acts of extreme violence, mostly culled from contemporary newspaper stories. Leviathan is about a decent man whose life is ruined by the mayor of his town in collusion with the Russian Orthodox Church and a corrupt judiciary.

The extent to which this is feasible might be explored, taking into account resource requirements, the fact that competition authorities operate on an episodic basis to deal with specific competition problems arising in individual markets where appropriate, and the need to maintain confidentiality of sensitive business information.

Although a growing number of countries have achieved an economic growth rate of over 5 per cent per annum in the past five years, such progress has tended to be rather episodic and, in any case, well below the 7 per cent growth rate generally considered to be necessary to begin making a dent on poverty in the region.