English-French translations for drift

dérivéDans une certaine mesure, les pratiques actuelles de l’Office européen des brevets ont trop dérivé vers une zone de flou, en octroyant des brevets sur des bases trop maigres. To some extent, current practice at the European Patent Office has drifted too far into a grey area, with patents being granted on flimsy grounds.
dériveNous devons être attentifs à une dérive dans cette direction. We must be cautious about a drift in that direction. Faut-il pour autant sombrer dans une phobie et une dérive hygiénistes et réglementaires? Do we need to sink into a health and regulatory phobia and drift? Nous assistons à la dérive du projet Nabucco, pour ne citer qu'un exemple. We are seeing the Nabucco project drifting, to cite just one example.

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Galileo ne devrait pas continuer à dériver; il doit s’amarrer. Galileo should not carry on drifting, it must land. Mais, très vite, le rapport ne peut s’empêcher de dériver vers une série de lubies fédéralistes. Very soon, however, the report cannot stop itself drifting off towards a series of federalist fads. Le danger est, aujourd'hui, de voir dériver notre système de santé vers le modèle américain (sélection des risques, exclusion, individualisation). The danger is now that we will see our health system drift towards the American model (risk selection, exclusion, individualization).
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Movement; that which moves or is moved
The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse
A place along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side
The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments
A tool
A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles
The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene
A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel
A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler
To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc
To move haphazardly without any destination
To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel
To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body
To drive into heaps
To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps
To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect
To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See

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