The Esa operations team will then put the satellite into a slow drift around the Sun before ceasing all communications.

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If you chat to the staffers who drift around the Christian Leadership headquarters, the sense of nostalgia for the 1960s is reinforced.

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Giorgio and Clara drift around scenes of his life at the military quarters, reading aloud their letters to one another across time and space.

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If, on the other hand, Mr Blair insists on staying on too long and thus deepens the sense of chaos and drift around his government, he will be doing both himself and his country a disservice.

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Rather than sticking to their allotted places, like their peers from other more boring countries (eg Germany), the Dutch drift around the field looking for space (if they have the ball) or trying to destroy it (if their opponents do).

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The cars can be coaxed into a controllable four-wheel drift, pitching around as they corner.

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The Gleision tragedy threw a spotlight on the nature of some of the small drift mines that were once dotted around Wales, but the reality of modern day opencast mining is as far removed as you get can from a pit like Gleision.

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If the ash cloud were to drift in another direction flights could be sent around or above it.

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There were two larger drift mines in the area, US and Canadian owned, one employing around 300 men and another around 160.

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The alternative is to drift in the wake of the conventional wisdom of the day and we need to decide whether we shape the world around us or are content to be shaped by it.

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