falteringly

Examples of faltered

faltered

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

But, as the population burgeoned in recent decades, traditional economies faltered and were supplanted by agricultural production reliant on few species.
This grandiose plan for rural transformation faltered with its first steps.
Both large and small children faltered, but at this early stage more boys than girls started from below average weights.
In contrast, their radical scepticism faltered when dealing with one of their own.
Without academic and professional leadership, comprehensive musicianship's translation into tertiary, secondary, and elementary music programmes eventually faltered.
As these subsidies were cut back or eliminated in the early 1990s, manufacturing in the interior has faltered.
Table 3 outlines several areas in which decentralisation has faltered.
This harsh disciplinary regime, however, faltered in the reorganization of the college which followed hard upon the heels of representative government.
However, when adult attachment insecurity was combined with marital attachment security, family functioning faltered.
However, in 1973 the program faltered in its growth because of a dropoff in contraceptive pill acceptors.
The promise of independence took a real hit when the economy faltered in 1990.
From the beginning the alliance faltered.
However, although the hydrocarbon sector upgraded its performance and added revenues, the rest of the productive sector - most of it state-owned - continued to decline, and the privatization program faltered.
The momentum to implement the necessary measures has repeatedly faltered in the face of often short-sighted resistance on the part of the governments.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
As a result, the world trade increase faltered for a few years.
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