Sentence examples for be a drift away from inspiring English sources

But over, say, a decade, there could be a drift away that would end up reducing tax receipts.

The press gave him a cautious welcome, but there was some concern that under him there might be a drift away from the company's original policy of opera in English.

The result has been a drift away from mainstream politics leaving it in the hands of a "cartel" insulated from genuine popular participation by "deliberate barriers" such as first-past-the-post, an undemocratic House of Lords, and a hierarchical party system.

In a sense, that is relatively easy to counter.It is more a drifting away, occasionally a resurgent isolationism that crosses right and left.

The press gave him a cautious welcome, but there was some concern about a drift away from the company's original policies: Solti, however, was an advocate of opera in the vernacular, and promoted the development of British and Commonwealth singers in the company, frequently casting them in his recordings and important productions in preference to overseas artists.

There has been a recent drift away from a 'neurocentric' focus with more directed investigations addressing the participation of astrocytes in the causation of seizures in lesional epilepsies (Steinhauser et al., 2012).

I mention the more conspicuous free agents not because they are exactly typical but because they point to something that is: a general drift away from old-fashioned corporate order and a tendency toward individualism in work life, especially among those who tend to invent new lifestyles for everyone else -- Wall Street, Hollywood and now Silicon Valley.

Another group of cases more eagerly awaited by liberals relates to capital punishment, where there has been a gradual drift away from state executions in recent years.

BUDAPEST — Faced with what critics say is an alarming drift away from democracy by one of its members, the European Union gave the Hungarian government a final warning Wednesday that it would face the start of formal legal action by next Tuesday unless it modified a series of measures that threaten the balance of power in the country.

A pickup just north of the overturned U-Haul began to float off, sustained on a wave of mud as if it were a dinghy drifting away on the tide.

Don't be afraid to drift away from people.