Sentences with phrase «drifting towards»

-- Smart, C., Neale, B. and Flowerdew, J. (2003), «Drifting Towards Shared Residence?

This question about timing is important because your spouse may have had no clue the marriage was drifting towards the brink.

This may see buyers drifting towards other offerings like the Xiaomi Mi Pad with a 1536 x 2048 pixels display and hardware that is leagues better than the Alcatel's Snapdragon 410, if they want to play a game or watch a high - resolution movie.

Such trends may be responsible for motor insurance purchase gradually drifting towards these segments.

I see problems with: * you have to be an active promoter of yourself to get articles read * the review process (mainly there is no ability to assess why rejected articles are rejected and the time wasting because of pedantic comments) * project - based funding and treating research like consulting (if I can tell you how much a project will cost, then by definition it is not research) * since academia seems to be drifting towards consulting, researchers start to become underpaid compared to peers in consulting * the focus on the number of publications weighted by the rank of the journal * status is based on if you publish in a high - rank journal, «selected» to be a lead author, and so on, and not whether you do good and creative research, good collaborator, good colleague to peers, etc..

The implication is that society is drifting towards the onset of serial global crop failures which may occur within a decade by regional failures coinciding, and which becomes increasingly probable in subsequent decades.

I think it's an interesting thought seeing as more and more icebergs that are breaking off from Antarctica are drifting towards cruise ship routes and making it much more dangerous to cruise down there.

But between Massimiliano Gioni's rather historical, «research - driven» Fifty - Fifth International Art Exhibition, Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace), and the reconstruction of Harald Szeemann's 1969 landmark survey of conceptual art, When Attitudes Become Form, this floating city is drifting towards the past rather than future.

If Halo players were lucky enough to complete the campaign in Legendary difficulty, the scene would continue and show Master Chief's escape pod drifting towards a strange planet, giving the Halo trilogy a nice cliff hanger ending which opened doors for a new Halo story ark.

Only once did Rotheram notice the man's gaze drifting towards him, then flicking away almost coyly.

The lane assistance system, which was originally standard equipment but is now an option, warns the driver when the car is drifting towards a lane marking and gently steers the car back to its path.

The Edge also has a lane assistance system that warns the driver when the car is drifting towards a lane marking and gently steers the car back to its path and an intelligent speed assistance system which identifies the local speed limit and allows the driver to set the limiter to that speed.

There is also a very strong sense of America's drifting towards one of the worst financial breakdowns in recent history, as we know Clinton's repeal of the Glass - Steagall Act was already in place by then, allowing financial deregulations to flourish to the point of a worldwide economic collapse.

This, in turn, means that the physical North and South poles are actually shifting, with the North Pole now drifting towards the United Kingdom.

The Labour leader said: «Now he wants to negotiate a new treaty when he can't say what he wants in it — all the time driven by a party whose centre of gravity is drifting towards exit.

Mr Burnham told Daybreak that older people are «drifting towards A&E in ever greater numbers» as care facilities in the community are taken away.

• Former Lib Dem MP Sandra Gidley complained about the party «drifting towards the right».

However, despite all the griping and sniping, Clegg looked strong and focused, and his speech — if it didn't appeal to grouchy journalists with conference fatigue — would undoubtedly catch the attention of ex-Lib Dem voters, undecided voters, and Lib Dem voters drifting towards Labour.

In fifth place this week is an article which pointed towards comments made by Alex Salmond about banning «all Donald Trumps» from Scotland and the passing of a law which could see football fans questioned and arrested just for the clothes they are wearing, as evidence that Scotland is drifting towards authoritarianism under the SNP.

But concerns among some Conservative MPs that the mission to defeat the Taliban is drifting towards failure were probably addressed.

«But for President Buhari's integrity, Nigeria under former President Goodluck Jonathan was heading and drifting towards anarchy and a failed state.

The government is democratically elected but by putting nationalism above morality and international legality, and by relying on military power to subjugate another people, it is in danger of drifting towards fascism.

Increasingly, this division of labour means that more well - rounded strikers are drifting towards the wings.

Robson - Kanu arrived for the last half hour of a game drifting towards an aimless draw, and took less than ten minutes to make his mark.

The game was drifting towards the end; even the atmosphere had gone a little flat.

With little to play for the remaining six games of the season, thoughts are already drifting towards the summer

Despite his promise, it seemed that Maitland - Niles may be slowly drifting towards that grey area where players are kept amongst the youth team ranks until their eventual release, however he stunned fans by being announced as a starter in the first EFL cup match of the campaign.

This results him drifting towards the ball, with no positional discipline, and taking extremely low percentage shots from no business angles.

Its always more about balancing the books than it is about moving forward and that's a fact Next season will be the best chance we've had in a decade to really compete with the oil rich clubs and Wenger is acting like its another day at the office while all the talented players in the 2 positions we need to fill are drifting towards clubs that are showing interest.

During the Wizards» 26 - 0 third - quarter run, Wall found himself drifting towards the baseline with Avery Bradley and Al Horford containing him.

A quantum gravitational phase is not a supernatural causation it is a mathematical construct but it is drifting towards an abstract of reality.

Bignall believes that «societal change will drift us towards eliminating the whole concept of war before that sort of concept happens.»

It has since drifted towards its lows again, amid market concerns about implementation lags in the government's new stimulatory measures.

His hiatus could drift him towards disbelief, or it could strengthen his belief.

Stirred to rise by a falling foot, feathered seeds graceful on the breeze drift towards the dawn....

«After the High Renaissance 17th century and the 18th - Counter-Reformation, art in most of Europe drifted towards pompous political and religious propaganda for a time.

Quoting extensively from Chesterton's poems, letters and articles (many previously unpublished) William Oddie guides us skilfully through the development of Chesterton's ideas, from the anti-clerical pessimism of his youth to his gradual drift towards orthodoxy and eventual conversion to Roman Catholicism.

Matter, inversely, is a drift towards dispersion, loss of form, degradation of potential energy.

For the past week I've watched as leaves in shades of gold and crimson drift towards the ground.

During such times, my mind drifts towards the warming powers of kimchi, and of the Korean stew kimchi jigae.

Over the years, I've drifted towards a preference of rhubarb dishes that are a bit more in - your - face tart.

I had been working at my computer for six plus hours and at some point during the last hour, my mind drifted towards Christmas.

We're left to assume that Mubtaahij just got a little tired and drifted towards the rail during the stretch.

Judged PURELY on the way he misruns the club, one might consider he actually wants to continue our remoresless drift towards mid table and lower, if he stays long enough.

Ox tends to cut inside and take up slightly more right - of - middle positions which crowds out Ozi when he drifts towards the right and Rambo when he bombs forward from his favoured right side.

This place, like practically everywhere on the internet, does have a tendency to drift towards being an echo - chamber.

Both Ozil and Carzola like to drift towards the middle, thereby crowding the middle and making it easier to defend for the opposition.

He drifts towards the middle invading other players space.

Henderson and Suarez took turns to drift towards the left.

He had overcome testicular cancer at Celtic and took over from Richard Gough at Everton, partnering David Weir at the back in his first season, as the Club drifted towards the sacking of Walter Smith.