Bacterioplankton refers to the bacterial component of the plankton that drifts in the water column.

There isn't even a pole at the Pole. There's nothing there, purely because it's sea ice. It's drifting.

And of course and of course, if the piece is long and you've had a long day, you might actually drift off.

Even the constitutional treaty, which should have been a clarion call for all Europeans, was allowed to become bogged down in minutia.

Yet, when push comes to shove, country after country is being dragged into abetting a potentially harmful outcome for the global economy as a whole.

If Iran gains nuclear weapons, it may, like Nazi Germany before it, be engulfed by murderous folly, threatening disaster for Israel.

Companies on both sides of the Atlantic could be thrown off course by the US fiscal cliff and the EU sovereign debt crisis.

Faced with the impossibility of advantageous accession to Euro Atlantic institutions, Russia is drifting fast towards alignment with China a younger brother, though a respected one.

Will Pakistan be dragged along the path of Islamic extremism and emergency rule, or finally achieve modernity as a secular nation under civilian leadership?

At a time when Europe is drifting and Asia is slowing, only the US (or, more broadly, North America) has the potential to drive global economic recovery.

Other trouble spots central Nigeria, where ethnic tensions are simmering, and the far north, the stomping ground of Boko Haram, a violent Muslim sect could get sucked into election related violence.

Wouldn't it be nice if intestinal gas came embodied in visible clouds, so she could see that her really quite inoffensive pop had only barely grazed my face before it drifted away.

For example, if a car is making a left turn and begins to understeer (the car plows forward to the outside of the turn) ESC activates the left rear brake, which will help turn the car left.

But if short sightedness and domestic policy pressures lead every EU member to do anything and everything they want in their own interests, Europe will soon drift from an economic crisis to a political one.

Yet, when push comes to shove, country after country is being dragged into abetting a potentially harmful outcome for the global economy as a whole. Worse, this process has not yet registered seriously on the multilateral policy agenda.

But it cannot wait too long, lest inflation expectations drift to a dangerously high level, forcing the Fed to move aggressively and at the cost of considerable economic pain to wring inflation out of the system.

Likewise, while Royal carefully maintains the distinction between nation and nationalism, she is drifting away from the Socialist Party s old embrace of The Internationale , instead defending La Marseillaise and suggesting that all citizens should display a French flag on the National Day.