It's pretty much like the moon. It has intermittent eclipses.

And my parents were very patient, but I had been doing intermittent sojourns to India on a mystical quest.

The intermittent wars and potential risks have impacted the development process of Western Asia more than any other part of the world.

Solar and wind power can deliver that already, but not necessarily when and where needed. We need storage breakthroughs for these intermittent clean energy sources.

(b) At least 60 per cent of all pregnant women who are at risk for malaria, especially those in their first pregnancy, have access to chemoprophylaxis or presumptive intermittent treatment

The story of gender mainstreaming policies in UNDP is one of good starts and lost momentum or what one might call policy evaporation' intermittent declarations (see chronology above) and mixed signals.

In that regard, special emphasis must be placed on young people, who often worked unacceptably long hours under informal, intermittent and insecure work arrangements characterized by low productivity, meagre earnings and reduced labour protection.

STOCKHOLM The ongoing Greek drama may have transfixed Europe and the world, but the great crisis in Europe s east has not gone away. Ukraine remains under partial occupation by Russian backed separatists, with intermittent fighting still taking place, despite the Minsk II ceasefire agreement.

Working with partners, UNICEF will support Governments to achieve universal coverage of interventions like immunization, vitamin A, insecticide treated materials for the prevention of malaria, deworming and intermittent presumptive therapy for pregnant women, with a particular focus on reaching poor, hard to reach and marginalized communities and families.

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. Many firms during the bubble had no hope of making enough money in the short run to justify their sky high stock prices.

Therefore, as a policy matter, there are advantages to trying to make treaties resistant to intermittent armed conflict and, when that cannot be achieved, treating the effect of war per se on treaties as suspensive rather than terminative so that the treaties can return quickly to operation upon the cessation of armed conflict.

22. Urges the international community to become fully knowledgeable about World Health Organization technical policies and strategies, including for indoor residual spraying, insecticide treated nets and case management, intermittent preventive treatment for pregnant women and monitoring of in vivo resistance studies to artemisinin based combination therapy treatment, so that projects support those policies and strategies

An interconnected energy system would make particular sense for the UK and Germany, which could use the one hour time difference between them to smooth out the peaks and troughs in demand. Renewable energy production is by nature intermittent, and the sheer number of fluctuating power sources in Germany is already pushing its existing grid to the limit.

What if, for example, Kim Jong un fails to consolidate power, perceives the domestic political situation as worsening, owing to elite power struggles or popular discontent, and deems the external environment, especially South Korea and the US ever more hostile? In that case, Kim III may grasp at provocation in one form or another, as his father did with intermittent attacks on South Korea in recent years.

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. More important, China s leaders believed that by shielding the North from US pressure, it was acting in the interest of its own national security.