How To Use Rift In A Sentence

The following years were characterized by rifts with Russia, in which the Ukraine jealously guarded its own independence against its overbearing neighbour.
The remaining three evolutionary forces are nonadaptive in the sense that they are not a function of the fitness properties of individuals: mutation is the ultimate source of variation on which natural selection acts, recombination assorts variation within and among chromosomes, and genetic drift ensures that gene frequencies will deviate a bit from generation to generation independent of other forces. A Disclaimer for Behe?
There are drifts of feverfew, clouds of philadelphus, grasses whispering in the breeze, and everywhere the perfume of 1,000 blossoms keeping the countryside alive in the heart of London.
I've got to make a couple of very hard decisions on a daily basis instead of taking the easy drifty way out.
Born in an American Stalinist medical facility**** to foreign parents, he spent his early years nomadically, drifting from country to country***** as his feckless father moved the family in search of lasting employment******. Support Al Kemal for Mayor of London: the People’s Choice! « raincoaster

They drifted into the control room and floated above the sensor-generated hologram of the â€œherd. â€ The â€œherdâ€ consisted of approximately 3,000 mountain-sized blocks of ice that once were comet 2P/Encke. 365 tomorrows » 2006 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
A voice drifted down through the hatch above our heads, ‘I'm amazed,’ it said. ‘Only three people have chundered so far.’
There is a slow drift into crisis.
Adopting, the additional computative burden imposed by it notwithstanding, Schonfeld's modification of Airy's formulæ, he introduced into his equations a fifth unknown quantity expressive of a possible stellar drift in galactic longitude. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
I was madly scrambling into my drysuit while Bill got the details from the divers, who had been drifting with this group for an hour or so.
a drifting double-dealer
Stewart's pigeon house almost succumbed under a drift six feet high, and half the pigeons escaped where the weight of sand forced an opening in the galvo.
Because it's basically like a film noir grifter gangster story and Ed's the leader of a con team and they do this complicated grift.
Since 2001, areas north of Point Conception to an intersect with the Oregon coast has been closed to drift gillnet fishing from August 15th through November 15th in order to protect endangered leatherback and loggerhead sea turtles. Permit to Kill Pacific Sea Turtles and Whales Requested by Seafood Company
The move "bedward" was almost simultaneous and the drift toward slumberland not far behind. Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation
Instead, his dull eyes flicked disinterestedly from ice house to ice house, noting the plume of smoke drifting from each.
** Ariftotle, "fays Lord Bacon, * 'thought, like the Ottoman princes, cfaat fee cottid not reign fecure, unleis he. deilroyed all his brethren; *' nor was his Hterary ambition more exclufive than exorbitant* The Monthly Review
The presence of extrusive volcanic rocks during the rifting stages suggests that a large volume of melt may also have been added to the crust intrusively.
Meanwhile, the brownish-blackish gunk is drifting along the coast to the northeast, Brower said. The Lovecraft News Network
Impressionistic cloud cities carved in some kind of webbed driftwood. Beowulf's Children
More and more men were transformed by the mutating power of the great clouds of Chaos magic drifting from the poles.
Tom swayed on his backswing because his hands drifted too far away from his body, pulling his torso with them.
Festival-goers began to drift off as the evening drew to an end.
I feared the snow would bury the words beneath its drifts.
But faculty and many of the most gifted students began to drift else-where.
They demonstrate that the orogen likely developed over a Neoproterozoic failed continental rift that was linked to the breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
caught the general drift of the conversation
Slowly it drifts down across the sea-curled weeds, the anchored life of the marine world.
Anything could be waiting for them in its white, drifty depths. May Bird, Warrior Princess
Our mercenaries (Blackwater and Haliburton and their minion) will still be on the ground, interfering with the new government whenever it drifts from the preordained path carved out by the American government since The Carter Doctrine. CNN Poll: Americans overwhelming support moving US combat troops out of Iraqi cities
She felt strangely weightless and ready to drift off with the next breeze.
It would be perceived by some critics as a tax on prudence and thrift. Times, Sunday Times
The breeze drifting through my window is warm, and somewhere I hear a bird crying over the water.
When I went for my walk this afternoon there was still no sign of snow, though the drifts of fallen May blossom along the hedge bottoms kept my mind on the topic.
He was severely concussed and drifting in and out of consciousness.
Tired after two performances that day, she began to drift between sleep and wakefulness.
The stream had cut a deep rift in the rock.
Subsequent movement rifted these later lava fields, causing long, linear valleys bounded by parallel faults. Iceland as a model for Renewable energy
The firewood, soaked in oil, blazed up immediately, and his boat became a beacon of flame, drifting downstream towards Lake Tallian.
Secondly we changed the sampling mode, using dual monostable multivibrators to select the focusing window, which solves the sampling drift problem raised by SCM break.
Sharing ideas can help heal a family rift. The Sun
Bernice lay contentedly at the edge of a sand embankment white as driven snow, her chin cupped in her hands, watching half a dozen or more mullets drift and swing in the limpid clear water below. The Mystery at Number Six
Dried manure ground into fine powder by hooves and wagon wheels puffed up into the air and its pungent smell filled the town and drifted far outside the town.
When I mentioned that I couldn't quite see that it was the lack of thrift, the intemperance, and the depravity of a half-starved child of six that made it work twelve hours every night in a Southern cotton mill, these sisters of Judy O'Grady attacked my private life and called me an "agitator" -- as though that, forsooth, settled the argument. Revolution, and Other Essays
Jabbing with the point he kept off Alexei's attack until the reaction of their mid-air collision made them drift apart again.
Domestic policy is drifting leftward, but there are sharp limits on how far it will go.
Any drift starting or stopping within the experiment may create artifacts, although the trials are randomized in a balanced order.
How has the UK moved from being a nation that held up thrift as a virtue and considered debt a vice, to owing a trillion pounds on mortgages, credit cards and other loans?
When the family get together you are the one who can heal a rift and get people talking. The Sun
She leaned out of the window, trying to enjoy the fresher air; a scent of burning rubber drifted in.
Antiwar activists shouldn't worry that their concerns will be given short shrift.
I've said that we want to put responsibility at the heart of our society and thrift at the heart of our government. The Sun
But its audience is being drawn away by the internet, and advertisers are following the drift. Times, Sunday Times
Denique Regia Chrifti dignitas ex eo fplendefdt» quod Crux exempta poenis fuppliciorum, translata pft ad frontes, & cqronas Impcratorum. Theologia dogmatico-moralis secundum ordinem catechismi Concilii Tridentini
Australian authorities have found no signs of foul play aboard a Taiwanese fishing boat found adrift and abandoned off western Australia.
Poster boy of creationists everywhere, he has cut himself adrift from the world of real science. Behe vs. Dawkins
Our relationship started well, descended into hate-hate, recovered somewhat to love-hate and, latterly, has drifted into respectful acceptance.
Government efforts to encourage short-term thrift have had mixed success. Times, Sunday Times
A bowl accompanied by a plate of three perogies, a scoop of mashed potatoes and a gob of the ubiquitous sour cream makes a filling, comforting and extremely thrifty supper.
I drove the ecocentric 104bhp BlueMotion, which was thrifty and yet remarkably perky. Car review: VW Golf Cabriolet
They drifted off course and they lost their moral compass so badly it was always going to come to a head. Times, Sunday Times
Hinter diesem Gedanken, der ein wenig misanthropisch vorkommen mag, hört man deutlich den milden und klugen Humor, der Ihr ganzes schriftstellerisches Werk durchströmt. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2002 - Presentation Speech
Someone had opened a window and the cool morning breeze drifted in and ruffled the white hospital curtains.
But I drift from the point, which is: what is a sane, accomplished, professional clarinet player to do while stuck out in the boondocks?
In a two-locus model, the gametic (and therefore genotypic) frequencies need not be constant across generations, even in the absence of selection, mutation, migration and drift, unlike in the one-locus case. Population Genetics
The man who claims them as rightfully his says he hopes to one day mend the family rift.
We got caught in it anyway being too high up when it drifted towards us - dense pouring cloud - filling in every clough and gulley between us and the hills over the valley.
What caused such an enormous rift in the genteel world of country-house opera? Times, Sunday Times
The court affidavit describes in hard-core detail how the other victim remembers drifting in and out of consciousness as Warren sexually assaulted her.
Sharing ideas can help heal a family rift. The Sun
It mixed with the humid air that was around and drifted towards the motorway becoming a thick smog. Times, Sunday Times
The survivors were adrift on a raft for six days.
Which was what she was thinking about as she drifted back to the present, to feeding the ducks on the pond. AFTERMATH
Everybody in the place, even the pick and shovel man at the end of a drift, consults his book.
A flaring sunset touches the trees with colours of flame and molten copper; reddens even the bullrushes and the ropes of ivy which drift, among their own reflections, in the river.
In one of his early sonnets, Shakespeare wittily turns such "unthrifty" wasting into economic malpractice: Me, Myself, and I
Banks, thrifts, and credit unions collected a record $37.8 billion in service charges last year.
It is time the Government acted now to cut them adrift. The Sun
The beautiful sounds of the Welsh Male Voice Choir of South Africa will drift across the lake's waters, while the Meropa Basadi group will play carols on marimbas and drums, giving the occasion a memorable African feel.
He drifted apart from those who loved him the most. The Sun
Her mind wandered from one area to another, until the sandman finally came and she drifted off into a deep sleep.
The décor is East Village thrift-shop moderne.
The former chief of the judiciary and close ally of Khamenei, Ayatollah Mahmoud Shahroudi, was quoted Monday in Iranian newspapers as calling the postelection rifts a "family dispute" that can be worked out through dialogue. Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
A tiny fishing boat was drifting slowly along.
There were appeals for Mr Bush to work on healing the transatlantic rift.
I would worry about long term calibration drift, though. IPCC AR4: No skill in scientific forecasting « Climate Audit
Feeling the fog begin to rise inside her head, a drifty sensation as if gravity had suddenly lost its hold on her. BLACKWATER SOUND
The Park consists of two geomorphic units: rift valley volcanic mountains and Congo basin low highlands. Kahuzi-Biéga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo
It helped paint a picture in my mind where for a moment I drifted off in a dream of great adventures to come.
The elements we feel and see shift and drift and suspire Perpetual Light : a memorial
It would be perceived by some critics as a tax on prudence and thrift. Times, Sunday Times
She stepped aside into the doorway of the next room while Luch drifted out and down the stair.
When Bath won an attacking scrum on the right and Swift began to drift across his marker did not follow him.
I stare at the snow drifting outside my window, at the nearly deserted street below, trying not to think about anything.
The trail begins near the entrance to the town, extending through patches of dogberries and fireweed, along a beach filled with driftwood and shells and into a wooded area.
She untied the rope and set the boat adrift.
The scent of turpentine and oil paint drifts through his open window from his neighbor's house.
The ship was drifting on the ocean.
A tiny fishing boat was drifting slowly along.
Driven by a penetrating east wind, it drifted until every hollow and depression was filled and the landscape assumed the appearance of a vast white prairie.
Many cliffs are now brightened by the pretty pink flowers of thrift on their trembling stalks. Times, Sunday Times
She sat down on a piece of driftwood that sat on the beach, and looked out to sea.
(and a title echo) with the tale of a small-town girl falling in love with a drifter who has a hairy past. Undefined
The restaurant drifts into decking areas for when the sun shines. Times, Sunday Times
They both went to their next classes, but the day drifted by slowly.
On one occasion we enjoyed a medium drift down a V-shaped channel, watching the usual teeming reef life flash by below and finning back every now and then to peer into crevices before being swept on.
The wind is drifting the snow.
I've come out of a rifted society, and I'm very, very interested in that idea, that you can take a physical and geological divide, and conceptually close it, and heal, heal people, heal yourself. CNN Transcript May 30, 2009
The light from the torches played across her face as she drifted into slumber.
He knew the hidden drifts in that part of the river.
His wounded hand wrapped in towels, he is raising the vodka bottle to down its remnants, when "his gaze drifted over the top of the cabinet door and he saw the camera". The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The wind drifted the snow into huge mounds.
Through the blown scud the clamour of the bell came mournfully to us over the waves; in the blown drifts of rain we saw the bawley labouring to us. Movie Night
The result leaves Pool nine points adrift of safety. The Sun
A street cleaner already cleans the main thoroughfares but wind eddies can blow drifts of crisp packets and chocolate wrappers into alleys and hedges, he said.
A prize draw aimed at compulsive spendthrifts has been run by a Chilean bank.
Lots of red clover and bird's-foot clover in the fields, drifts of white daisy faces, and the sumac is almost ready to bloom. Sunday roadkill report
Whenever, by the judgment of the town council of any town, a highway or driftway in the town, or any part of either, has ceased to be useful to the public the town council of the town is authorized so to declare it by an order or decree which shall be final and conclusive.
Jack and Mary had been married for a long time but gradually drifted apart until they separated.
Jack, an outcast and drifter himself, feels a connection with the tinkers and takes the job which, in turn, takes Taylor to perilous places within and without.
We found some, but not the great swathes that we had hoped for, although we were rewarded by plenty of patches of bluebells, drifts of wood anemones, a glade with masses of milkmaids and lots of primroses, cowslips and violas and bugle.
Then driftingly came the thought that she would not shrink from Wade's reading her mind. The Mysterious Rider
She is very resourceful and thrifty, but her face is always expressionless, except for an occasional look of fear.
Tell your wife you worry you are drifting apart. The Sun
In the outland beyond the city people naturally have stocks on hand, because you never know when the weather will take down your juice and you'll be stuck in the house in February behind four-foot drifts with no phone and no lights.
In 1881, the schooner Ellen Austin, bound for London, discovered a derelict adrift in the Sargasso.
These and the hedgerows drifted in and out with the ebb and flow of the firelight, but the two piebald horses were too far away to be seen, although they could be heard occasionally, blowing and stamping.
The paper outlines the situation that Sanxiao experience is popularized for rock drift excavating also its economic efficiency in aspect of promoting driving rate of advance and decreasing cost.
The drift apart had been gradual.
You get that for drifting slightly above a 30mph speed limit. The Sun
I slipped away from the port and went along the deck to the break of the poop, where I held on and stood staring through the gray and spray in the conjectural direction of our drift. CHAPTER XXXVIII
But she has no intention of changing her spendthrift ways. The Sun
These stones include a 52.40 carat clean light fancy yellow diamond from Holpan; a 60.52 carat light yellow octahedral diamond from Saxendrift; a 74.99 carat clean white irregular blocky stone from Saxendrift; a 54.23 carat light yellow broken macle stone with inclusions from Saxendrift; and a 60.51 light yellow rounded flat stone with oxide coating and minor inclusions from Saxendrift. News24 Top Stories
Drift-netting is another example of our inability as humans to establish a sustainable relationship with the planet.
When I admitted to a miser 's thrift, you never asked a thing, but I would spend my life to shoe your feet and love the last moment of it. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
The captain and his crew were left drifting aimlessly on the tiny raft after their boat, the Gullborg, exploded south of Shetland almost 32 years ago.
A narrow inclined rift leads out to the head of the pitch, and a large wedged block provides an initial belay for a traverse at roof level to the first section of the pitch.
Above me, two white clouds drifted with imperceptible motion across a luminous blue sky. DOUBTING THOMAS
Himself a monarchist conservative, he had little time for some of the politicians who drifted in and out of office in Berlin. DARE CALL IT TREASON
The movements did not so much drift apart as come to represent opposed interests.
Floating clouds of colour spun and drifted. Times, Sunday Times
He is also undutiful to me, besides being a spendthrift and squanderer.
Some people just drift through life.
The lights above glared down on them all, a rack of suns illuminating a drifting fleet of ships.
Family Lives will help put you in the right frame of mind to heal the rift (familylives. The Sun
American television and cinema to my recollection has always featured sanctimonious public preachifying, to the extent that Eastwood mocks this rift in the American consciousness in “High Plains Drifter.” Fundamentalist obsession with the Crucifixion (Why are some people obsessed with the Crucifixion?, pt. 2)
After the band stopped playing, people drifted away in twos and threes.
They are as though adrift at sea without compass or destination, so they might as well demand that theirs be a pleasure cruise. Christianity Today
A tidy item that — sixty to seventy thousand dollars 'worth of mule flesh; and the superintendent, over the phone, orders the moving of the mule herd to another potrero away from the line of Federal driftage. Our Adventurers in Tampico
But the man didn't quote Scripture, just drifted away.
In fact, the rift is so vital, so strong, that there is a specific law and a specific organization that pertains to just this thing. Reading the Hugo Nominees: The City & The City
You have the picture of a party that is rudderless and adrift, with no clear-cut strategies of providing principled opposition on issues.
But the French like nothing better than endless discussions and over-intellectualizing, so Allen's cinematic navel-gazing never lost its luster here -- even as his films became stale and a chunk of his American audience drifted away. Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: The Other Side of Midnight in Paris
For 16 almost uninterrupted years, cancellation left us adrift in time. Times, Sunday Times
This huge stretch of coastline is dominated by offshore barrier islands built by the surf out of drifting sand.
His top thrifty tips include buying seasonal food in abundance when it is at its cheapest and freshest and freezing any excess. Times, Sunday Times
Macroalgae benefit from this relationship because fertile drift plants are retained in the photic zone where they continue to contribute to the gene pool.
The boy drifted into a bad habit.
It would also be in line with the gradual drift towards fuel tax harmonisation across the Community.
Don't go down in history as a spendthrift, who threw away the country's wealth and squandered the opportunity to truly develop our nation.
Gomersal are still ten points adrift of Yeadon, who had the better of their drawn home match against Farsley.
They pop open the cartridges and begin to paint with brushes, tossing spent containers to drift and litter the sea floor.
Family Therapy around the World: A Festschrift for Florence W. Kaslow is a wonderful tribute to and legacy of an amazing, seemingly ubiquitous woman.
Such unthrifty Shih Tzu puppies may respond positively to a few milliliters of raw liver juice fed daily for their first few weeks.
The curved scar of the rift followed the island's contour, spewing sulfurous gases. MINUTES TO BURN
I'm sorry, I can't quite catch the drift of what you're saying.
The ethos reflected the brothers' zeal for thrift and hard work. Times, Sunday Times
Or faith-based organizations landing more and more hard-earned taxpayer dollars, including Pat Robertson's Operation Blessing, which grifted FEMA in the wake of Katrina's devastation. Scott Thill: Waking Up is Hard to Do
I like being this girl, at least visually -- for in my thrift store trench coat, short hair and glasses -- Bic pen notwithstanding, I must look far artsier - far cooler - than you and I know I am. Evolver Diary Entry
It was populated by festering drifts of trash, with large dumpsters rising out of the junk like weird islands, and a few old-fashioned tin trashcans here and there.
We are not told that they are Scotch, endowed though they undoubtedly are with some of the canny and thrifty characteristics of the dwellers ayont the Tweed. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878
As seams they may be thick or thin -- borderlands of crosshatching or palimpsesting inhabitable in their own right or thresholds crossed with a step; they may be sealed tightly with crossings only possible through a portal or a rift, or they may be stitched loosely with crossings possible at any point along the long threshold. Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams
I have ordered them not of chintz, but moreen, which is against your taste, and hardly according to my own; but the latter article proved on enquiry to be far the thriftier as well as the most comfortable; and therefore the best adapted for our purpose. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
When we arrived in Chicago, there were 6ft-high snowdrifts and the wind was howling.
But chaff drifts with the wind. ONE HUNDRED DAYS
An active origin is suggested because volcanism and uplift appear to have preceded rifting, an active plume passing over a large area.
If the distribution is, in fact, bimodal, that means that the median and mode are drifting apart. Escalation of Income, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Drifts of sea pinks coloured the soft grass of the cliff tops and house martins zipped by flashing their pure white rumps.
Neil said. 59 Arm drift is just the way that neurologists tell that the anesthetic has arrived.
Three insulating panels had come adrift from the base of the vehicle.
The two tiny fishing boats drifted apart in the storm.
Him drifting around stylish wooden houses while battling existential despair? Times, Sunday Times
Above all, he liked working with conductors who were clear about their intentions - if not they would receive short shrift. Times, Sunday Times
He had no choice but to ease his foot on the accelerator and let his speed drift down to about 20 mph.
Around this time, Stephen Smith, a lumber merchant from Pennsylvania, was the largest shareholder in a thrift named Columbia Bank.
They are very noticeable as they hover or drift around in a sleepy, sluggish way. Times, Sunday Times
However, preliminary genetic analyses showed offspring admixture was probably caused by apicultural drift (beekeepers' term for the change of hive or colony).
He told me of one such time, when he'd been sent to the store with the money put in his mitten, on returning he'd stopped out front and the change, a nickel, somehow slipped out into a snowdrift.
He worries also about the slow drift of journalism out of the public consciousness.
Sass, Hans-Martin, “Bruno Bauers Idee der Rheinischen Zeitung”, Zeitschrift fÃ¼r Religions - und Geistesgeschichte 19 (1967), 221-276. Bruno Bauer
At about 07:30, just after the troops had crossed the drift, they formed a hollow square formation comprising 4156 whites and 1152 blacks.
This choice allowed us to travel comfortably with the wind at our backs while viewing the constant vista of mountains and valleys, the ice-speckled Atlantic Ocean in the distance dotted with floes of drift ice from Quebec and Labrador.
In this process, it has become clear that Europe opposes the broad non-technical patents on business methods that are now available in the U.S., signaling a major rift in international standards of patentability.
The annual awards recognise the efforts made by school principals, teachers and parents to encourage the habit of regular saving, thrift and money management.
Banks of primroses, drifts of bluebells and clusters of cowslips are now found only in secret, out-of-the-way places.
_ -- The whole formation is Archean and Primary (with a few modern plutonic outbursts), and chiefly consists of granite, felspar, quartz, gneiss, schists, amphibolite and other Archean rocks, with Primary sandstones and limestones in the basin of Lake Nyasa (a great rift depression), the river Shiré, and the regions within the northern watershed of the Zambezi river. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
The noises of the camp drifted up over the grade fitfully, dreamily; some new hunger that might have been called homesickness was urging a new tone into the evening sounds. The Return of Blue Pete
Stems, twigs and driftwood embedded in the sand and mud were used to carbon-date the core sections.
Materials and food prices began to drift downwards from the summer of 1973.
They made towards it as the first flare hit the sea, continuing to burn, with clouds of smoke drifting upwards.

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