Sentence examples for as a drift from inspiring English sources

To the traditionalists at Yale, the Bass gift had represented a welcome chance to correct what they saw as a drift away from liberal education toward "multiculturalism".

Rajan's speech represented a challenge to what he and some other economists see as a drift toward untested and dangerous policies.

Even the army coup was a negotiated affair, agreed among political, military and business elites to head off what they saw as a drift toward socialism.

Ulrich Speck at Carnegie Europe, a think-tank in Brussels, sees the danger as a drift away from Germany's Western identity and its strategic bond with America.

By John Cassidy May 13 , 2016Raghuram Rajan, the governor of India's Reserve Bank, has presented a challenge to what he and some other economists see as a drift toward untested and risky policies.

During Taiwan's last presidential campaign, in 1996, China test-fired missiles over waters close to the island's major cities to protest what it saw as a drift toward independence.

A brisk, boppish workout like "Stan the Man" feels as loose and unhurried as a drifting waltz like "26".

Meanwhile, the young (or at least those youths who aren't busy fomenting historic revolution overseas) are often lumped together as a drifting generation, faced with a bankrupt government, genuinely dire employment prospects and a generally dismal tomorrow.

In blunt post-mortem assessments, they describe the program as a drifting ship -- poorly designed, leaking money and controlled by a Security Council that was paralyzed by its own disputes over Iraq policy.

The condition (1.3a), which we call '((N+1))-points condition in time', is known as a drifted periodic condition; see [16].

In the case of motion aftereffect paradigms, for example, an observer stares at visual motion such as a drifting grating (the adapting stimulus) for a period of seconds.