The emerging details about the inspector general's report come as many of the other major inquiries are making fitful progress.

There's slow, steady, fitful progress toward a more decent and democratic world.

Computer-assisted learning, although it has made only some fitful progress in the past twenty years, will also feature prominently in education.

With budget negotiations making only fitful progress today, there was apparently not much news to report.

But Cityscape has made only fitful progress in achieving its goal, as Ms. Rogers concedes.

After Syria and Israel made slow, fitful progress in the spring, their talks bogged down over the summer.

The fitful progress that resulted was the most the overcrowded state of the narrow roadway allowed.

In May 2004, after fitful progress, that's what happened.

The value of this idea, however, is contradicted by the group itself, which reports only "fitful progress" building the Iraqi Army with embedded advisers.

The tribunals were widely derided at first, and they have made but fitful progress over the past several years, convicting mostly lower-level figures like Tadic.