faultering

A society with the "ties that bind us" made of voluntary associations and agreements is a far superior, happier, honest, emotionally mature, wealthier, and moral community than one where the ties are hierchical obligations and benefits -- however benignly or liberally decided. the progress of political/economic instutitions through time is one of experimenting, faultering, and finding those which organize activity and thinking with less coercion.

Church and State, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

It took Bush all of 2 years as President to take a booming economy with a surplus, and turn it into a faultering economy with a deficit.

Obama: Economy 'in a much better place' 2010

The war rages, the uninsured are dying and the economy we rely on for our prosperity is faultering.

Poll of polls: Obama losing ground 2008

Take a pointer from the faultering effectiveness of the Bush Adminstration's annual tay-er-er alert for Xmas.

Poll: Majority Of Iowa Republicans Favors Withdrawal From Iraq In Six Months 2009

With the world economy faultering and the taxes on working people going up will there be enough elite left to take these trips?

Suborbital Could Be 'Next Big Thing' for Space Science | Universe Today 2009

After a little recovering from this cruel shock, she ventured, though in a faultering voice, to enquire whether young Mr Delvile had been there?

Cecilia 2008

Cecilia, little expecting this offer, turned extremely pale, and after pausing some moments, said in a faultering voice, “What, then, Sir, is your advice, in what manner —”

Cecilia 2008

General Motors, Ford and Chrysler are the latest in a long line of faultering companies to ask for federal bailout money, meanwhile layoffs continue across country.

CNN Transcript Nov 22, 2008 2008

With difficulty he seemed able to do the honours of his house, in his usual elegant manner; and when his friends rose to depart, in a faultering accent, as he pressed

The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale 2008

The tender, the considerate tenderness of her reverend minister, was so much like what she formerly had experienced from him, she was deeply penetrated, and returned in a faultering accent — “I will endeavour, dear Sir, to profit by your advice.”

The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale 2008