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With the cold war's intermit tent crises no longer seeming so momentous, one eye of U.S. foreign policy has shifted to the long view.

From Time Magazine Archive

General Scott, nevertheless, though equally anxious to terminate the conflict, did not for a moment intermit his military vigilance.

From Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California by Brantz Mayer

This is quite enough of time for taking care of the outer man, and any one careful of his health will be sure to intermit one or two of these seasons.

From Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland by J.O. Choules

Though often in feeble health, he seldom allowed physical languor to intermit his work.

From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by J. F. (John Fletcher) Hurst

I haue begd to maintaine me the better part of the waye, onely because I would intermit no time from my pursute in going backe for monie.

From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Edmund Gosse

For a long time these walks had been intermitted, and he had almost forgotten the irritation of the past in this respect.

From A Country Gentleman and his Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

She wrote to her Commissioners to resume the duties which they had intermitted, and to renew the conference once more.

From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) by Henry Glassford Bell

Before morning broke, however, it was clear that the march must be intermitted.

From Barclay of the Guides by Herbert Strang

It consequently, though somewhat invigorated at first, intermitted more and more toward the close, working, when it did work, awkwardly and with friction, until the physical collapse came, and the end was reached.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane

The heart-sounds were so weak that the presence or absence of bruit could not be safely predicated; meantime, the pulsations intermitted in a most alarming manner.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie

Mrs Ndisang said "no reason was given" as to why intermission was refused "but it was very clear intermitting was not an option".

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2023

The trees that stood in front of the house ever and anon yielded to the intermitting gusts of wind, and bowed their heads as though in submission to a superior power.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

The same Cause which produces these intermitting Fevers, frequently also occasions Disorders, which return periodically at the same Hour, without Shivering, without Heat, and often without any Quickness of the Pulse.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

The intermitting of Three Hours should be most naturally read as suggesting that at least in the judgment of the managers its initial vogue had passed.

From Three Hours after Marriage by John Arbuthnot

The following day I was better: the doctors found my pulse regular, and without any intermitting symptom.

From Adventures in the Philippine Islands by Paul P. de La Gironière