Is it reliable or intermittent?

Windpower has a high EROEl, but is intermittent.

They remained in existence for intermittent, generally short, periods.

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.

Between 0500 and 0600 hours an Israeli gunboat off Mansuri fired several intermittent bursts of medium weapons fire in all directions.

Between 0500 and 0645 hours an Israeli gunboat off Mansuri fired several intermittent bursts of medium weapons fire in all directions.

Between 0300 and 0600 hours an Israeli gunboat off Mansuri fired several intermittent bursts of medium weapons fire in all directions.

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

Intermittent clan clashes and real and perceived security threats forced the Office of the United Nations Security Coordinator to implement stringent security controls.

There were intermittent clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli forces, particularly at Hebron, and a number of attacks by Palestinians on Israeli targets.

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.

Drought and intermittent clan conflicts have resulted in the displacement of an estimated 400,000 people in Somalia who continue to live in extremely difficult conditions.

49. The situation in Somalia has been affected by pockets of drought, floods and intermittent fighting, thus requiring a flexible approach to reach vulnerable children.

Intermittent fighting continues in Somalia, and the prevailing insecurity and violence continue to prevent the United Nations from implementing programmes in large areas of the country.

It is exceedingly difficult to convince such an individual that for an astronomer in a developing country, e mail, if available at all, is often intermittent and unreliable.

(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.

(d) The continued and protracted flow of refugees and the displacement of an estimated 400,000 internally displaced persons in Somalia as a result, inter alia, of drought and intermittent clan conflicts

Although both types of expertise are hired on an intermittent or temporary basis under special service agreements, they differ in terms of the nature of the services they are to provide.

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.

In 2004, a survey is to be carried out on supply systems, densely populated areas and areas receiving intermittent supplies special emphasis will be placed on high risk spots, such as bus stations, markets, etc.

315. Despite the fact that on average the state of health of the German population is good, many people live with chronic diseases or indicate that they have suffered from intermittent attacks of chronic diseases.

Ferry services across the Caspian Sea are inefficient and are not scheduled. This results in long waiting times for rail wagons, and road vehicles intermittent political hostilities in the Caucasus also discourage transporters from using this route.

Significant traffic delays were still experienced however, as traffic was allowed to move in only one direction at a time, because the Israeli authorities regularly searched vehicles at the checkpoint, or because there continued to be intermittent closures.

Between 0040 and 0245 hours Israeli forces and the client militia fired one 120 mm mortar shell and several intermittent bursts of medium weapons fire at areas around their positions at Ksarat al Urush and on Burj hill.

Clear definitions of the various types of personnel hired on a temporary and intermittent basis by the Secretariat, to easily differentiate those engaged for consultancy functions from those, including individual contractors, hired to perform regular staff or otherwise non consultancy functions.

The type of racial discrimination, similar to what was practiced in South Africa when the policy of apartheid was not yet dismantled, has never officially or factually existed in the Philippines, neither in a systemic nor formal nor intermittent nor isolated manner.

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.

Prof. Thürer pointed out that people had the right to vote at intermittent intervals to ensure that democracy retained the essential capacity to vote a Government out of office and halt the opaque accumulation of power and repression that inevitably followed from a lack of transparency.

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.

Concerning the allegations of forced displacement, what was in fact happening was that the populations of the governorates of Dohuk, Irbil and Sulaymaniyah had to flee periodic clashes between the Kurdish factions in Iraqi Kurdistan, the latest of which had been going on since October 1997, as well as intermittent Turkish invasions.

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

NGOS such as Casa de la Mujer, PROMUJER and Cinemujer and many regional centres do important work in the promotion of women and or provision of services which make good to some extent the deficiencies in the State apos s provision, even though they receive no, or only very intermittent, support from the State.

28. Although consultants and individual contractors are both hired on an intermittent basis under Special Service Agreements, they differ significantly in terms of (a) the nature of the services they are supposed to provide, and (b) the budgetary account against which the cost of such services are chargeable. As provided in ST AI 296

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.

Deeply concerned that intermittent drought and heavy rains which caused river flooding and consequent severe devastation, coupled with the dire economic situation and persistent civil conflict, have seriously impaired the traditional coping mechanisms of the people in some parts of Somalia and have aggravated the increasingly fragile food security situation in the country, worsening the overall humanitarian situation,

A more sophisticated approach would be a combination of periodic changes in the central rate to compensate for differences in inflation with trading partners, combined with intermittent and irregular central bank intervention in the market to raise uncertainty about the size and direction of short term movements in the exchange rate (that is to say, vigorous dirty floating ).

At 1400 hours Israeli military aircraft made two successive attacks on the Mlita hills, Jabal Safi and the environs of Luwayzah, firing two air to ground missiles. The same aircraft made numerous medium altitude overflights of the area and continued an intermittent bombardment of the environs of the above mentioned areas until they withdrew from the airspace at 1545 hours.

UNICEF provides hand pumps and sand filters to schools and other institutions, as well as hygiene education and maintenance training. 36. The intermittent funding for water and sanitation activities allows for small scale interventions only. Large scale funding for major improvements is required in order to secure proper water system management through cost recovery schemes, water rate setting and comprehensive accounting systems. Education

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.