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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It was lunch, it was take out, it was sit down, it was buffet, it was three weeks ago, it was three months ago.

It was theirs. It was experiential. It was authentic.

That was the model. That was what everybody was suggesting was going to be coming.

Two years, I was ostracized, I was stigmatized, I was isolated, because I was a victim.

And the rule was, because I was sensitive, I was compassionate, I was very sensitive to injustice, and I was very pro justice.

And for me, that seven years was like total bliss, because I was reading, I was writing, I was thinking, I was researching.

This was bad! Man, I was I cough. I was sick.

Agnes was a woman who was cut when she was a little girl, she was female genitally mutilated.

It was simple it was modest.

I was hoping I was wrong.

She was happy I was fine.

The scene was ugly, but ONE thing was clear One side was peaceful, the other side was not (read here).

What was worse, was that the mascot was actually a man, pretending to be a woman, who was not covered, and who was making inappropriate gestures with a male mascot which was accompanying it.

Look here, 1858, India was here, China was here, Japan was there, United States and United Kingdom was richer over there.

What was distinctive this time was that the new borrowing was concentrated in housing.

That was not what was going on.

Sami was killed because he was Muslim.

He was a philosopher he was a drum player he was a teacher par excellence.

There was a great TED moment, I think it was Sir Ken Robinson, was it?