But this year’s school will be fraught, for some of the party’s own leaders have taken to denouncing it as lifeless, rudderless and ready to be buried.
The surprise resignation of Japan's prime minister, Yasuo Fukuda, has once again left the world's second-largest economy rudderless-just as it seems to be drifting dangerously towards the rocks.
The country was politically rudderless for almost three months.
Back in June 2007, Yahoo appeared to be rudderless. Its business was slowing, morale was low and many of its key executives were leaving.
But it seems unlikely that Germany will save into pressure to expand the ECB's role any time soon, so yet again the Eurozone seems to be a rudderless ship on stormy seas.
At no time should a government be rudderless, without a leader.
By 1995, the last time I lived there, Russia had disintegrated into a rudderless mess, defined most by a bestial crime rate and Boris Yeltsin's kleptocracy in the Kremlin.
A victory for Bhum Jai Thai is likely to trigger more defections in parliament from the rudderless Peua Thai.
I was a rudderless drunk.
You feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that's okay that's alright because we're all meant to be like that at twenty-four. 你現在對生活感到有點迷茫，不知所措，沒有目標，失去方向，不過沒關係，我們二十四歲的時候都是這樣。
The Tigers’ former following, however, is now rudderless, allowing dissenters to speak up.
If you are soft, and if you show the slightest latitude, you will continue to sail aimlessly in the rudderless boat.
Frustrated and rudderless, Agassi agreed to have dinner with a prospective new coach, a man whose tennis he didn't much admire.
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