-
They thus tend to flit from activity to activity.
ECONOMIST: The genetic legacy of nomadism may be an inability to settle
-
Instead, when the subject demands it, he manages deftly to flit back and forth among the decades (throughout the book, he is particularly good on the regular outbreaks of labour unrest, be it in the San Francisco dockyards or the fields of the Central Valley).
ECONOMIST: California
-
About 3.6 million unique visitors flit to the Daily Fill site every month.
FORBES: Social Slingers
-
In Prospect Park alone, at least 90 species of native bees flit from flower to flower among the park's sun-dappled golden rod, dandelions and dogwood.
WSJ: New Sweat Bee Generates Buzz
-
But the biggest problem may be the sheer complexity of doing ad campaigns that can reach consumers who increasingly flit from computer to smartphone to tablet and back throughout the day.
FORBES: In Big Shift, Google Aims To Boost Mobile Ad Campaigns - And Its Own Revenues
-
These days, as opposition politicians flit from one party to another, an announcement on the date of parliamentary and presidential elections is keenly awaited.
ECONOMIST: Moi��s coup
-
Swallows flit about as he points to the different horses in their stalls.
FORBES: Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank And His Underdog Horse Farm
-
The shop is modeled after a London townhouse in the 1920s, and merry women dressed in black and white maid costumes flit about the crowd waiting to enter the store.
CNN: Style mavens flock to Fashion's Night Out
-
Instead of curling photographs and yellowing newspapers, we are possessed of a shiny and permanent now, one we flit-click about and so delude ourselves as to our own eternal youth - until, that is, we look down at the wrinkled and liver-spotted hands that rest on the keyboard.
BBC: A Point of View: Nostalgia - it's not like it used to be
-
In that case, one might expect retention rates to fall for those with short tenure, because less-qualified workers often flit between jobs.
ECONOMIST: The end of jobs for life?
-
Since these are for the most part produced in Rio de Janeiro and feature characters drawn from the upper-middle class, they tend to reflect a world where good-looking white people in expensively casual clothes flit around in a perpetual summer, attended by maids.
ECONOMIST: Brazil: Half the nation, a hundred million citizens strong | The