The North Koreans are erratic, unpleasant, irresponsible, and unhelpful.

Uncollected garbage piles up in the streets. Water supplies are erratic.

The rains last year were erratic, when they came at all.

Its politics grew fractious, its policies erratic, and its finances increasingly unstable.

The West s attitude toward democracy in the Third World has always been erratic.

Indicators with erratic incomplete data include those for child mortality and education enrolment.

The other left has proved to be more extreme and erratic than many anticipated.

The inherently erratic behavior of the major renewable energy technologies presents serious problems for power system planners.

She has no insurance against erratic weather patterns, gets no subsidies, and has no access to credit.

Following the path of the steam engine long ago, progress is not doomed to be rare and erratic.

The West s response has been far more supportive of Arabs aspirations, but it has also been contradictory and erratic.

RB Philippe is quite erratic, so I think that he wouldn't be the best person to design the engine, no.

Unfortunately, Iraq appears set to continue to be a major source of high oil prices, owing to highly erratic output.

Faced with the erratic nature of agricultural markets, regulation is needed to soften the impact on poorer countries of volatile food prices.

For them, climate change can be expected to bring more erratic and uncertain storms, with no guarantee of water in the well, bucket, and field.

Innovation to reduce the delivery bottleneck is critical. Following the path of the steam engine long ago, progress is not doomed to be rare and erratic.

A volatility feedback loop begins the more volatility, the more people feel they must pay attention to the market, and hence the more erratic their trades.

Utilities came under scrutiny in the mid 1990s, as many of the sectors lacked investment, relied on outdated technology, provided erratic and unreliable services, and left large areas under serviced.

The problems resulting from overcrowded prisons are compounded by limited access to health care facilities and legal counsel for prisoners as well as the erratic supply of water to prisons.

The Advisory Committee was informed that the high spare parts consumption was due to damages caused to communications equipment by erratic and unreliable electricity supply in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

However, it is often the constraints that they face in other areas that cause them not to be deemed creditworthy (e.g. they are dependent on erratic international market prices and on weather conditions).

The Saudi Cables lift the lid on a increasingly erratic and secretive dictatorship that has not only celebrated its 100th beheading this year, but which has also become a menace to its neighbours and itself.

While the quality and quantity of humanitarian assistance has improved across Darfur, incidents targeting humanitarian supplies and personnel on major roads have rendered the movement of supplies erratic and inconsistent, affecting crucial assistance to beneficiaries.

The Fernández government has been sending signals that it is determined to continue on its erratic course, not only creating chaos in the economy, but also marginalizing the country in the eyes of the international community.

Given the erratic nature of Berlusconi s rule, it is no surprise that, ever since the 2001 election that returned him to power, the center left l Unione coalition has won all subsequent elections administrative, regional, and European.

Indeed, the region s geostrategic situation has changed again since the Clinton Morsi meeting, and the response of both the United States and the European Union (for which the Mediterranean is crucial) has been late and erratic.

Shop shelves are looking sparse as all imported goods start to run out. Electricity is erratic as those who can afford it have bought electric induction plates and other similar things for cooking and are stretching the system.

Its repercussions could be enormous, because the contradictory and erratic response of the United States to the coup could be interpreted as tacit encouragement for other would be coup leaders elsewhere in the region, at least in Central America.

Flows to both North Africa and sub Saharan Africa have been erratic but, in the past two years, North African countries seem to have experienced net capital outflows, while net flows to sub Saharan African countries have remained positive.

In 2011, under President Nicolas Sarkozy, France has again taken a highly visible stand on a question of war and peace, except that now the French, together with the British, are leading the fight to protect Libya s people from their erratic, brutal leader, Col. Muammar el Qaddafi.

Although no particular heat wave can be directly attributed to global warming, it will make such events more frequent. Moreover, if global warming continues unchecked, the number of deaths that occur when rainfall becomes more erratic, causing both prolonged droughts and severe floods, will dwarf the death toll from hot weather in Europe.