Shifting geopolitical power also breeds uncertainty.

This change, however, is also creating anxieties about shifting power relations among states.

In order to escape that fate, existing institutions must adapt to shifting global power dynamics.

Veto power is effectively shifting from the UN Security Council to G 77 plus China.

My second point is, and I know I don't have to talk to an audience like this about such a thing, but power is not just shifting vertically, it's also shifting horizontally.

Moreover, the failure of the global financial system comes at a time when power is shifting from West to East.

Robert Chambers and Jethro Petit, Shifting power to make a difference , Inclusive Aid Changing Power and Relationships in International Development, Leslie Groves and Rachel Hinton, eds. (London, Earthscan, 2004).

They are intellectual butlers, serving the interests of those in power, not vigilant observers of shifting reality. Their systems trap them in orthodoxy.

Jack Horner Shape shifting dinosaurs

Shifting the Afghan Great Game

Against this geopolitical background, Asia s power dynamics are likely to remain fluid, with new or shifting alliances and strengthened military capabilities continuing to challenge the prevailing order.

Lewis Pugh's mind shifting Everest swim

But today, the balance is shifting.

Shifting environmental factors shape human decision making by activating motivational systems related to threat, achievement, and power motivation, as well as to care for others and social affiliation.

History is not particularly encouraging when it comes to adjusting to profound changes new actors and shifting balances of power as the twentieth century tragically and repeatedly demonstrated.

(c) Nomads, pastoralists, hunter gatherers and shifting cultivators

Signs of Hamas s shifting perspective are becoming increasingly apparent.

Yet the current situation is shifting expectations into reverse.

The US Federal Reserve is finally shifting its thinking.

Fabian Hemmert The shape shifting future of the mobile phone

Nevertheless, what is normal is itself shifting all the time.

The emergency phase is rapidly shifting to recovery and rehabilitation.

The middle class has increased to around 35 million and the upper and upper middle classes to around 17 million in recent decades, and power is shifting from rural landowners to the urbanised elites.

At TEDxBerlin, Fabian Hemmert demos one future of the mobile phone a shape shifting and weight shifting handset that displays information nonvisually, offering a delightfully intuitive way to communicate.

So the leadership role is shifting to women in the developing world.

China, too, is shifting its nuclear forces to mobile missiles and submarines.

Many UN members, believing that power within the UN has been shifting from the General Assembly, resist giving up what they regard as its last vestige control over the budget through the work of the Assembly s Fifth Committee.

The US is not alone in shifting its security focus to East Asia.

At the same time, images of life in our own societies are shifting.

Shifting to renewable energy sources will require enormous effort and major infrastructure investment.

The title of my talk Shape shifting Dinosaurs The Cause of a Premature Extinction.

For example, Pepsi bolsters its bottom line by shifting to more nutritious, healthier food.

Another lesson is that we should not worry too much about shifting political majorities.

So the focus in world politics is shifting from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

It is the region to which the world s economic center of gravity is shifting.

Slowly but surely, the mood in Minamata and Japan as a whole was shifting.

They have conditioned constructive engagement on Kosovo issues on a shifting series of prerequisites.

We are now going through an amazing and unprecedented moment where the power dynamics between men and women are shifting very rapidly, and in many of the places where it counts the most, women are, in fact, taking control of everything.

Moreover, alliances among radical groups are constantly shifting, a reflection of tribal traditions and opportunism.

The burden needs to go somewhere, and shifting it back to its creators makes sense.

Shifting political interests are, however, but one part of the changes in an aging society.

The message is clear water risk management is shifting into the mainstream of business practices.

Shifting income from those who would spend it to those who won t lowers aggregate demand.

On the contrary, for the Provisional Institutions it should mean shifting into a higher gear.

However, like all new innovative ideas, time is a prime requirement for shifting the paradigm.