Sentence examples for unmoor from inspiring English sources

By trying to produce chapters of roughly equivalent lengths, Langton had to unmoor himself from a traditional understanding of scenic units.

But such thoughts do unmoor a person slightly.

But an amount that large is seen as unrealistic; it would sharply devalue the dollar and could unmoor inflation expectations and cause long-term rates to rise — the opposite of what the Fed wants.

However, shortly after their Jamaican ceremony, Ms. Klotz began to significantly unmoor herself.

The most prominent dissenter, Thomas M. Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, has argued that new quantitative easing could lead to imbalances and volatility, undermine the Fed's independence and unmoor inflation expectations.

"My assessment is that both the current levels of unemployment and inflation and the time frame over which they are likely to return to levels consistent with our mandate are unacceptable," he said, adding, that "the longer this situation prevails" the greater the risk that a new shock could unmoor the economy further and push it "closer to outright deflation".

Some committee members worried that switching to a new targeting regime could "risk unmooring longer-term inflation expectations".

Mr Adams refers to the character of Brooks in "The Shawshank Redemption", who gets released after many years in prison and then hangs himself, to explain how the end of a very tough event can leave a runner feeling unmoored.

In 2012 Maddow published the book Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, a wide-ranging examination of U.S. military policy from the Vietnam War to the Afghanistan War.

The usual rites of degradation: the ongoing unmooring of one's personal identity, the suppression of one's personal authority, the elimination of one's security — a craving for solidity, for one's equanimity, in the face of an ever-present uncertainty.

By the time we get to the second play, "Paraffin" (slickly directed by Daniel Aukin), drugs and the blowback from America's foreign wars have unmoored the building's tenants and made them more cruel, dangerous, and barbarous.