This is Niles Eldredge. He was the co developer with Stephen Jay Gould of the theory of punctuated equilibrium.

The impression Putin's presidency creates is of autocracy punctuated by elections.

Otherwise, we can expect a long period of stagnation, punctuated by periodic financial crises.

His reign was punctuated by a series of internal conflicts which he managed to overcome.

For decades, open conflict and simmering hostility have been punctuated by periods of short lived bonhomie.

It's punctuated by three quick anecdotes, which show how accidental encounters with strange noises gave us some of the most important information we have about space.

This one entitled boom tells the story of Evan s experience with an explosion one of many terrorist attacks that have punctuated our days and weeks recently in Lebanon.

Given this backdrop of repression and punctuated democracy, the failure of Islamists in Egypt and Turkey tells us less about Islam s compatibility with democracy than we might think.

The history of legislative reform is substantially a punctuated equilibrium, with long periods of time during which public apathy prevents any progress, interrupted by scandals that suddenly make progress possible.

Instead, it tends to be punctuated by major developments battles, assassinations, breakthroughs that have consequences that are felt for years.

I know this because look at how punctuated meal time is when they are no longer in their particular rooms here. Right?

It's a picturesque village on the edge of the Sahara desert, whose serenity is punctuated by five ritual daily calls to prayers.

When Jon Huntsman, an early contender, displayed some real intellectual heft by making a few useful points about dealing with China, punctuated by a brief display of his own mastery of Mandarin, some other candidates responded with derision.

Overall, after almost 25 years of stunning prosperity, punctuated by only two mild recessions, most Americans feel pretty confident about their economic situation.

Hospitals throughout Europe and America consistently reported death rates between 20 to 25 of all women giving birth, punctuated by intermittent epidemics with up to 100 fatalities of women giving birth in childbirth wards.

Speciation events are important in the theory of punctuated equilibrium, which accounts for the pattern in the fossil record of short bursts of evolution interspersed with relatively long periods of stasis, where species remain relatively unchanged.

The sight of run down physical infrastructure, punctuated by super modern shopping malls with global consumer brand names well beyond the purchasing power of most citizens, is not what you would expect in an economy once described as a potential Asian Dragon.

Otherwise, today s fencing in of the rich world will increase the risk of a backlash against free circulation of goods and capital, as well as of political instability punctuated by terrorism.

However, despite this positive picture, a climate of protracted social and humanitarian crisis endured through the year, punctuated by an intensification of the conflict, ongoing barrier construction and persistent fiscal crisis.

As long as we rely on technical fixes to plug moral gaps and governments rush in with rescue packages that enable the merry go round to start up again, we are bound to keep lurching from frenzy to frenzy, punctuated by intervals of collapse.

China s prolonged and apparently contentious leadership transition, punctuated by the purge of Bo Xilai, suggests that its leaders ability to continue to manage the country s emergence as a great power is not entirely certain.

You may think I'm wrong in this, but I think that we live in an age when our lives are regularly punctuated by career crises, by moments when what we thought we knew, about our lives, about our careers, comes into contact with a threatening sort of reality.

But any assessment of European economic governance must acknowledge the slow, contradictory nature of intergovernmental decision making, in which a misconceived notion of national interest, together with upsurges in popular anti EU sentiment and electoral pressure, has led to a stop and go process, punctuated by financial market swoons.

In the 1970s Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge proposed the theory of punctuated equilibrium which holds that stasis is the most prominent feature of the fossil record, and that most evolutionary changes occur rapidly over relatively short periods of time.

Tailgating, or picking up dimes in front of a steamroller, is another source of febezzle. Investors search for regular small gains punctuated by occasional large losses, an approach exemplified by the carry trade by which investors borrowed euros in Germany and France to lend in Greece and Portugal.

So this project was punctuated by a really amazing event, which was held in the desert outside Albuquerque in New Mexico at the Jemez Pueblo, where for three consecutive nights, the contents of the capsule were projected onto the sides of the ancient Red Rock Canyon walls, which stand about 200 feet tall. It was really incredible.

It will be as with the people, so with the priest as with the servant, so with his master as with the maid, so with her mistress as with the buyer, so with the seller as with the creditor, so with the debtor as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest.

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest as with the servant, so with his master as with the maid, so with her mistress as with the buyer, so with the seller as with the lender, so with the borrower as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.

David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, and with harps, and with stringed instruments, and with tambourines, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

and spoke to them, saying, Return with much wealth to your tents, with very much livestock, with silver, with gold, with brass, with iron, and with very much clothing. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.

Yahweh will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew and they shall pursue you until you perish.

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They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.

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He shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, with the living bird, with the cedar wood, with the hyssop, and with the scarlet

Some with serious remarks, a few with questions and some with irony.

Earth was associated with the cube, air with the octahedron, water with the icosahedron, and fire with the tetrahedron.

And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.

We were experimenting with type, with illustration, with photos. And we had fun.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love

They deck it with silver and with gold they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move.

They deck it with silver and with gold they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.