Asia Adrift

America Adrift

Algeria is adrift.

I'll cast you adrift sir.

It's done, Skipper. We set them adrift.

In what year were you cast adrift?

Hundreds of babies are cast adrift, every year.

Belay that, cut the boat adrift, we've no time.

Captain Ahab! Have you seen a whale boat adrift?

Take him to his ship and cast him adrift.

Pass me adrift at the mercy of savage Indians?

I was cast adrift on the Nile, in a reed boat.

You were taken away from your mother, and cast adrift on the river.

In the days of sail, being adrift in the doldrums was every sailor's nightmare.

Probably put almost everything in the car. It could have been adrift. Ms. Harper ...

Even those who have jobs fear that they could lose them and be cast adrift.

Last time I was adrift, a sea anchor held us up 48 hours in a storm.

There's a piece in here about some people who were adrift in a lifeboat for 80 days.

A victim of such injustices, Africa, more than any other developing region, has the characteristics of a continent adrift.

We regret that this has come about and that in some societies there is a sense of being adrift.

Something similar is happening on the extreme right, with white power offering an apparent certainty to youngsters who are adrift.

This may be old stuff, tossing' messages off in bottles and setting' 'em adrift, but I've heard of it workin'.

The drunks adrift on the edges of the picture seem to be shrivelling, like moths, in the burning glare of these three false suns.

Now, if you want to understand what happened then when the continents broke apart, and dinosaurs found landlubbers, as they are found themselves adrift.

Well, they had plenty of time on their hands, so they began writing' notes, puttin' 'em in old rum bottles, and setting' 'em adrift.

From 100 million to 150 million surplus rural workers are adrift between the villages and the cities, many subsisting through part time, low paying jobs.

By vote of all, ye are deprived of command... and sentenced under piratical law to be cast adrift in a small boat... without food or water.

Iran s mood changed by the time America s entire Middle East strategy had gone adrift, but the grand bargain remains the only viable way out of the impasse.

Now, if you want to understand what happened then when the continents broke apart, and dinosaurs found landlubbers, as they are found themselves adrift. There's some missing puzzle pieces.

How many times have I heard or read in the course of recent years that my continent is a continent adrift, a continent in distress, a continent in agony.

The quot Yin He quot was compelled to stay adrift on the high seas for more than 20 days with its crew suffering from a shortage of fresh water, food and drinking water.

The virus of depression and schizophrenia, including their milder forms, is cultural in origin the embarrassment of choices that these societies offer in terms of self definition and personal identity leaves many of their members disoriented and adrift.

For it is in no European country s interest, or in the interest of the EU as a whole, that Central and Eastern Europe feel that they have been cast adrift or that Germany and Russia fixate on each other in this time of crisis.

Although the agreement may yet strip Assad s regime of some of its most dangerous weapons, the process if it can be called that which brought it about has strengthened a global perception that US foreign policy in Obama s second term is either adrift or drifting into isolationism.

We should try to help South Africa hold its steady course to election day and not allow treacherous undercurrents to set it adrift, for on 27 April 1994 South Africa has a rendezvous with destiny, when apartheid will be finally and irrevocably buried at the ballot box.

Like castaways set adrift on the world apos s oceans, we have for some time been desperately trying to catch the ears of those who happily stand on solid ground. But our voices have somehow failed to carry in the face of the biting winds of global change which have, almost overnight, altered the very environment within which we have been conditioned by history to survive.