He popped into full alertness, however, the next time an engine faltered.
The engine faltered, the Hurricane nearly stalled.
This, in turn, could trigger recession here as the other principal engines of world growth, West Germany and Japan, are themselves faltering.
The engine faltered again, rallied, and then there was an explosion as if a grenade had detonated over my head.
The growth has come as other traditional engines of the region have faltered.
One by one the engines faltered and died, choked in the dirt.
After the dollar began its decline against the yen in 1985, observers thought that Japan's industrial engine could not help but falter.
At the same time that our economic engines are faltering, something else is happening.
Even if the engines faltered as his mind ceased to control them, the people in the holdfast would find a way to make them fire again.
They said it was too early to pinpoint what had caused the two engines to falter.