unanchored

Hi Bradford – it should have read 'unanchored' not anchored.

Blast From the Past 2010

Should inflation remain well above the Bank's official 2 per cent target for long periods next year the danger is that inflationary expectations could become "unanchored", with potentially disastrous consequences - the return of stagflation.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

Consumers, businesses and investors must feel more confident that prices won't spiral higher in the future, so their inflation expectations don't become "unanchored," Walsh said last month.

WTOP / Business / Biz Stories 2009

Witness an astonishing charcoal drawing, c. 1880-85, full of pentimenti and reconsiderations, of a dancer, arms flailing as she prepares for an "inside" turn; she spirals away from us, limbs extending to the corners of the sheet, unanchored, unstable, turning inert paper into pregnant space.

Stolen Moments and Persistent Poses Karen Wilkin 2011

Here, if nowhere else, let us not mince words: Abortion is the "answer" to a sexuality that has become unanchored and out of control.

Ideology and the destruction of body and soul 2009

"Notwithstanding occasional spells of credit-market pressure, further incremental monetary policy tightening is advisable to ensure inflation moderates and to prevent inflationary expectations becoming unanchored," the report said.

OECD for Raising Rates to Combat Inflation in India Abhrajit Gangopadhyay of Dow Jones Newswires 2011

Like Odysseus, he feels himself “unanchored to place.”

Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

Another way: He’s philosophically unanchored, an unstable element.

Ari Melber: The Underminey Backlash Against Newt, Starring Peggy Noonan Ari Melber 2011

Like Odysseus, he feels himself “unanchored to place.”

Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

In our modern, multicultural world, one that has become geographically unbound, perhaps literature too has become unanchored.

Border Crossings 2009