Sentence examples for marked drift from inspiring English sources

The concept of punishment its definition and its practical application and justification during the past half-century have shown a marked drift away from efforts to reform and rehabilitate offenders in favor of retribution and incarceration.

It is therefore necessary to set an upper time threshold Tmax to warrant homogeneous movements (i.e. no marked drift or diffusion changes) between successive relocations: track segments that are longer in time are dismissed from UD computation.

In eddies and still water, curving lines of floating plastic bottles functioned as buoys marking drift nets.

A total of 8632 emerging juvenile wood frogs were captured and marked at drift fences encircling breeding pools, with 1166 marked wood frogs (Rana sylvatica), and 13,727 unmarked amphibians captured in drift fence/pitfall arrays at 16, 50, 100, and 150 m from the pools.

In other respects the first 100 days of his coalition's rule have been marked by drift, squabbling and indecisiveness.

With Mr. Obama, who is depicted here as having lost the thread of his own story line, Mr. Suskind supplies a story line of his own: that of "a brilliant amateur" whose early tenure in office was marked by drift, hesitancy and an inability "to translate his will into policy on the occasions when he could decide on a coherent path".

"A zygote like a tiny question mark drifts into her womb," Mr. Doerr writes silkily about one failed effort for Imogene to conceive.

The rightward drift of a court led by Justices Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, and Alito — a drift marked by appalling decisions like Citizens United — would only intensify during a Romney Presidency.

Scores of children's colored marking pens drifted in it.

The top of this plastered drift is marked by a major erosional surface, most likely induced by an increase in oceanic current circulation.

The message next to the arm cavity reads, "Touch the world". A small suitcase in the next room, which visitors are asked to sit on, is marked with the words "Drift away". Yet viewers giggle at the performers and seem to ignore the messages.