After four or five hours, the Zodiac began to drift away from the iceberg.
Yet some voters are beginning to drift away from the rigid identity politics of old.
Readers pointed out that continental drift is causing France to drift away from the United States, not toward it.
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Here, 11, 000 km from Seoul, alone and impressionable, Ko began to drift away from his old friends and to take up with a racier crowd.
They start to drift away, though not in any recognised manner.
Cassano superbly spun away from two defenders and swept in an inviting cross that allowed Balotelli to drift away from Bastuber and head home from close range.
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But about 85m years ago, as India started to drift away from Madagascar towards its current location, the microcontinent would have broken up, eventually disappearing beneath the waves.
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But the audience started to drift away in early 2010 when services such as Facebook and Twitter exploded in popularity, as users preferred getting article recommendations from their friends or people they followed.
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"The Rydberg electron resembles a sheepdog that keeps its flock together by roaming speedily to the outermost periphery of the flock, and nudging back towards the centre any member that might begin to drift away, " said Professor Greene.
Tendency to tune out or drift away in the middle of a page or a conversation.
Maybe the government can block Lord Puttnam and not provide a compromise, but the lesson from this episode is that the Parliamentary supporters of press regulation are not going to get bored and drift away.
Some elements in this crisis can indeed be traced back eventually to defects in Britain's system, notably the drift of power away from Parliament to the executive.
Cook soon decided that spin from both ends was the best policy and the indispensable Swann got one to drift in and then spin away to trap Siddique.
England started well after Hussain won the toss and elected to field, but let the game drift away with shoddy fielding.
They have seen ethnic supporters who backed them during the conflict drift away as they draw closer to national power.
One of the fears among Republicans all along has been that the party's conservative base, not considering a former governor of Massachusetts who once backed abortion rights and his own version of government health insurance to be one of their own, would drift away.
Hearts remained in control in the second half and Marius Zaliukas beat Smith to a high ball, but saw his header drift away from goal, while Kingston was too high with two long-range efforts.
The drift of the Senate away from majority rule to a new standard of 60-vote rule is a dangerous trend.
The faithful have not stopped going to Mass or, at least, the drift away from the pews that began in the 1950s has not accelerated.
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"The ship will drift away from its true position, and slowly start to turn, " said Prof Last.
Eventually, he saw Donahue drift away from his man and slipped a pass inside to set up the winning goal.
In a poll conducted May 28-June 1 for the Anti-Defamation League, 60% of 540 adult Jewish Israelis surveyed believed that American Jews continue to feel close to Israel (up from 45% in 2009), while 26% feared a drift away from Israel.
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