The action unfolds in sporadic bursts, lending the game a high-strung intensity.

Some warm weather will return, but in sporadic bursts with the north receiving strong winds and rain.

Outside, sporadic bursts of automatic gunfire mingled with the whirr of helicopters and the screech of ambulance sirens.

The city by night became increasingly anarchic with sporadic bursts of gunfire.

This they duly accomplished with little fuss against opponents who showed sporadic bursts of courage, but who were outmuscled at the rucks and outflanked out wide.

The area has seen sporadic protests over several days.

As has been the case for decades, there have been sporadic protests about soaring executive pay.

Yesterday a wary calm was broken by sporadic protests in the border area.

After the end of each siege, violent suppression of sporadic protests continued throughout the following months.

The decision also elicited sporadic protests from various business groups.

Sporadic violence, which soon grew into full-scale rioting, began after police moved in to arrest pickpockets who they said were working among the carnival crowd.

Sugar workers attempted another strike in 1880, and both growers and workers resorted to sporadic violence.

The island has suffered sporadic violence since then but nothing on the scale of yesterday's attacks.

Next may come a stage of peaceful political activity, and then one of confrontation with a specific regime that can lead to sporadic violence.

The prison has been hit with sporadic violence in its 130-year existence.