Examples of falter

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The third section looks at the faltering progress towards integrated services.
In contrast, their radical scepticism faltered when dealing with one of their own.
By relying on automatic priming and alignment processes, however, the theory falters when it comes to explaining much of dialogic interaction.
The moment of the curse pushes towards an asymptote where true-to-life depiction falters.
Instead, they are merely faltering attempts to express different facets of the one simple essence.
Here, however, he falters, and abandons the further analysis of the form of value.
From the late 1970s the flow of remittances faltered as unemployment grew ; female migration became increasingly common, and the number of female-headed households expanded.
At the immediately sub-national level, however, the parallelism falters - for political more than linguistic reasons.
What is vivid, however, is his faltering speech, his slightly breathless excitement.
Where a straightforward 'yes' to this question falters is on the cusp between conscious and unconscious.
As these subsidies were cut back or eliminated in the early 1990s, manufacturing in the interior has faltered.
The expressive body struggles to complete the impossible utterances from which the mind recoils and upon which the tongue falters.
She faltered and disobeyed her man, giving cause to war.
Without academic and professional leadership, comprehensive musicianship's translation into tertiary, secondary, and elementary music programmes eventually faltered.
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