Sentence examples for there was a drift from inspiring English sources

And: "There was a drift of perfume over the mould, that same taste of women's scent settling on her tongue.

"There was a drift that led parties to use all their means to look for money, and to look in the place where the money was -- i.e., in business," Mr. Chirac said.

k results followed same trend but there was a drift between them due to the samples porosity and thickness.

There was a drift here 12ft high with no air holes and he found sheep I would never have dreamed could have been under there.

There was a drift in the baseline of the SHR strain.

Thus, it appeared as though there was a "drift" in the time clocks of one or both of the AMs.

We got up at 4 in the morning, piled into a van and headed down to St . Georges, the capital of Grenada, where there was a drifting party.

"I think everybody is concerned that there is a drift".

There is a drift of power to London, and the start of the decline in regional production, including Granada's famous base in Manchester.

Pelecanos reworks the classic mean streets to a contemporary soundtrack, and if there is a drift towards sentimentality (and rehab) in recent books he is always a pleasure for his understanding of how a big city works - and doesn't.

Among other specialists and national-security types, however, there is a drift toward the proposition that if the Taliban is in some sense indigenous or inevitable, perhaps we should just accept our limits and let Afghans sort them out, given that the Taliban only kill "occupying" American soldiers and civilians locally, and do not operate overseas.