Meanings of periodic bouts in English

The GAA is in one of its periodic bouts of hand-wringing about violence.

High levels of youth unemployment have fueled periodic bouts of unrest.

Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority country, still has periodic bouts of anti-communist hysteria.

In faraway Albuquerque, Donna was ill, suffering periodic bouts of nausea and vomiting.

There's none in his body, but he must have been suffering periodic bouts of pain.

Perhaps more important, why does our economic system experience periodic bouts of unemployment and negative growth?

Farmers and agriculture firms could once count on periodic bouts of crop-destroying weather to tame gluts and drive up prices.

Every society in every corner of the world engages in periodic bouts of moral uproar over the behaviour of its youngsters.

It's hard to ignore the fact that clubland is going through one of its periodic bouts of head-scratching and belly-fluff examination.

Malaysia's opposition alliance, despite its election successes in 2008 and in recent by-elections, appears to be in one of its periodic bouts of arguing.