Sentence examples for sections drift from inspiring English sources

Campbell is more concerned with weird facts and flights of fancy than with rigorous analysis, and the book's indulgent early sections drift somewhat, but things pick up in the thoroughly enjoyable second half as Campbell heads to the Micronesian island of Yap, where for centuries people used great stone disks – up to 10ft in diameter – as money.

There are almost 50 old photographs and drawings dispersed throughout the book; it looks like WG Sebald's Austerlitz, and in some small sections drifts off into the memorial haze that many people appreciate in Sebald's last novel.

In the construction of a shallow running-tunnel for Beijing metro line No. 13, due to restrictions by the surface environment of the area, a subsurface protection scheme was applied: two small cross-section drifts with shotcrete linings were constructed at above each side of the subway running tunnel, and reinforced concrete piles were installed into the ground from within the drifts.

What is not in dispute is that the bulk of Jordan's Palestinians observed the IAF's call and stayed at home.In this section Drifting apart Saddam defies the UN, again Let's be diplomatic, say the neighbours Purity, please Moi's coup Lebanon's choreographed war-dance ReprintsThe king may well feel that a docile parliament is preferable to an acrimonious one.

Others were prevented from re-entering Iraq from Bahrain.In this section Drifting apart Saddam defies the UN, again Let's be diplomatic, say the neighbours Purity, please Moi's coup Lebanon's choreographed war-dance ReprintsMr Annan set out to defuse the crisis by gathering together three remarkably able diplomats and sending them to Baghdad.

The bow section drifted several hundred yards out to sea and most of the crew huddled together on the central bridge section or at the stern.

The stern section drifted aground at the opposite side to the bay to where the bow section remained.

Ten hunters who also had been trapped on the floe managed to escape Tuesday afternoon after the ice split and their section drifted closer to land.

The fore section sank immediately, while the aft section drifted for some days before it was found and the 44 crew rescued.

He frequently sips a mug, maybe just of tea, and watches the band during the contemplative instrumental passages which thankfully break up their crowd-inciting punk force, as with "Napoleon Solo"'s sections of drifting beauty.

Two connective sections are titled "Drift I" and "Drift II".