Sentence examples for drift to cities from inspiring English sources

While such debates grind on, impoverished victims of the tsunami are likely to drift to cities or abroad seeking employment.Political reverberationsMuch will depend on how the governments concerned handle the reconstruction.

However, in densely populated rural economies, such as Indonesia, where the rate of population growth is still over 2percentt p.a., population drift to cities has not significantly reduced the density of rural settlement, or improved the economic livelihoods of the majority of the rural population.

As a consequence, Sri Lanka has successfully avoided the many social problems of cities elsewhere in Asia, Africa and Latin America which are bursting at their seams due to the drift to the cities by youth in search of work.

Yet the drift to the cities from the backward countryside is unlikely to slow.

In contrast to previous urban growth, which was based on the drift from countryside to cities, nearly all of these people will be born into already bursting slums in Africa, Asia and Latin America, with only a tenuous connection to the villages their parents or grandparents hailed from.

Thomas dropped out of school and drifted to the city.

But they knew this bleak, spare story about a young couple from New York who drift from city to city in the North African desert marked the arrival of a different kind of American voice.

Thereafter, I was constantly drunk, treated myself as a garbage can for pharmaceuticals, and within a few years lost everything and became a wino on the street, drifting from city to city, sleeping in missions, eating at giveaway programs. . . .

When Qubilah returned to the US with young Malcolm, they drifted from city to city.

Houser had a long history of erratic behavior in the Georgia and Alabama communities where he lived before drifting to Lafayette, a city where his uncle had lived decades earlier.

Drifting to the open city of 1960s San Francisco, he developed an interest in art and design and eventually opened a series of stores there specializing in midcentury modern furniture and appliances.