Guardian development readers need no reminding of the scale and urgency of global challenges such as the economic crisis, our self-destructive drift to climate crisis, or the scandal of 1 billion people going to bed hungry every night.
If ever Israel needed a U.S. defense secretary who was committed to Israel's survival, as Hagel has repeatedly stated — but who was convinced that ensuring that survival didn't mean having America go along with Israel's self-destructive drift into settling the West Bank and obviating a two-state solution — it is now.
Their torrid love affair proves impossible to sustain, and the vain, self-destructive Jimmy drifts away from domestic bliss with the pregnant Francine.
Have our leaders the stomach for that, or will they let us drift into the destructive high-inflation low-output "stagflation" of the 1970s?
Mr. Cohen said he drifted into a destructive phase that culminated in the office work he did for the psychiatrist, Dr. Norman Ackerman.
The church's finger seems farthest from the pulse of those black men who seem to be most lost and drifting in a destructive sea of fatalism and pathology, with no immediate sign of the shore or of search and rescue crews.
From the sky, its gentle, drifting movements belied the invasive algae's destructive power.
Oceana will continue our ongoing efforts to improve sperm whale protections in the drift gillnet swordfish fishery, and ultimately phase out this destructive fishing method while replacing drift gillnets with cleaner and more effective gear types.
Smoke from burning Skoob Towers drifts through her 1996 novel Babel Tower, conveying the destructive energy of the 60s.
Well, he sees the three characters as intelligent twentysomethings, witty, well schooled, privileged (rich Jewish kids, at that) but at the same time drifting, drug and pot consuming, alienated from and by parents, casually destructive.
