Readers pointed out that continental drift is causing France to drift away from the United States, not toward it.
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Phillipos says he replied, "Do what you have to do, " then managed to drift off to sleep.
So Estrada addressed just about every issue - from Concord to policy drift to corruption to crime - that had been eroding his popularity and his administration's effectiveness.
Instead, they are all too likely to let the system drift closer to the point at which the money runs out, then enact a series of emergency proposals -- and trust to luck.
But what these gentlemen are going to be able to do is when the news media starts seeing its attention drift to other things but there's still enormous needs on the ground, these two gentlemen of extraordinary stature I think are going to be able to help ensure that these efforts are sustained.
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One effect has been to halt a drift from public to private schooling.
As long as the country is in danger of leaving the euro, growth will continue to shrink, bail-out targets will be missed and politics will drift to extremes.
He was lucky to win that match at all, and he almost lost, letting a 5-0 lead drift to 5-4 before he nailed it, on the third throw, with a double 10.
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It is always easier to let an investigation languish or drift than to shut it down, and making the hard decision to cut one short frequently does not come with any immediate or obvious professional advantage.
Indeed, it is a slower speed that enables such an aircraft to be so quiet: it would drift in to land rather than powering in, all engines blazing, as today's jets do.
Pretending to doze off, I let the car drift gently to the left.
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Or curl up with a hot water bottle as the temperature drops and listen to the whoop calls of hyena as you drift off to sleep.
Yet the drift to the dollar standard was somehow judged as a sign of progress.
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After four or five hours, the Zodiac began to drift away from the iceberg.
Many market participants agree that the long term inclination for stocks is to drift higher.
Ward seem to drift in on the crackling radio waves of a distant time.
His height gives him an advantage, but still tends to drift in and out of games.
Yet some voters are beginning to drift away from the rigid identity politics of old.
Yet the drift to the cities from the backward countryside is unlikely to slow.
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The coalition is likely to drift apart as soon as Mr. Aquino leaves office, if not before.
No sooner did I have this thought, however, than I began to drift off into pleasant semiconsciousness.
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While Mr Assad's attention focused ever more narrowly on the peace process, internal policy began to drift.
'We don't intend to drift back to anything which seeks to manipulate our exchange rate, ' he said.
If things don't change, Russia will continue to drift like a piece of ice in the Arctic Ocean.
So it need not necessarily be that investors are complacent in allowing implied volatility to drift so low.
If the ash cloud were to drift in another direction flights could be sent around or above it.
In the 1960s and 1970s, babies tended to be put in their cots and left to drift off.
The only concern I have now, is that the game might drift to far into the interactive film territory.
Sadly, our society has allowed itself to drift in an altogether different direction.
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Lucky for them, they can in fact allow the pound to drift lower by monetizing some of their debt.
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