ATHENS The Cyprus bailout deal is a watershed in the unfolding eurozone crisis, because responsibility for resolving banks problems has been shifted from taxpayers to private investors and depositors.

It merely shifted from left to right.

The focus has shifted.

The Government has gradually shifted responsibility for reform from the Justice Reform Commission to the justice sector's three permanent national institutions, the Ministry of Justice, the Attorney General's Office and the Supreme Court.

Following the July 2003 establishment of two investigation offices, in Vienna and Nairobi, to serve as regional hubs, the main responsibility for the implementation of investigation operations has shifted to the investigation office in Vienna.

In line with this new strategy for recovery, responsibility for coordination of Chernobyl issues across the United Nations system was shifted in 2004 from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs to UNDP.

Today, however, the eurozone s attention has shifted to growth.

Gradually, the SCO shifted its focus to fighting Islamic radicals.

Sami's brush with death shifted his focus from business to religion.

They have shifted from defensive to offensive Iraqi led security initiatives.

Failure to design an effective fiscal stimulus shifted the burden to monetary policy.

Monetary policy itself has shifted to a far greater focus on inflation.

Thus, insidiously, the burden of proof is shifted.

The forecasters have now shifted their predictions of 3 plus growth to 2011.

During this period, American Ballet Theatre shifted its focus to recruiting ballet stars.

The city centre shifted from the Old City to the new Train Station quarter.

Goal posts should not be selectively shifted beyond legal obligations.

Seduced by China s spectacular growth, the region shifted from US to China centric export growth.

At the Yaroslavl meeting with Medvedev, attention shifted to the connection between democracy and modernization.

In 2008, the crew shifted to using Wacom Cintiqs for the drawings instead of pencils.

The focus of Russian naval activities shifted back from the Far East to the Baltic.

During those years Argentine Armed Forces shifted to Western European countries and Israel for supplies.

And the focus this year has shifted decisively away from it.

The law has shifted from proscribing language likely to cause violence to prohibiting language intended to give offense.

The role of the hymn in this way shifted from a religious to a political context.

During recent decades, development thinking has shifted from modernization and structural adjustment programs to poverty reduction.

Since the 1990s private finance has shifted from international syndicated bank lending to international bond issues.

In addition to activities supporting the intergovernmental process, the emphasis shifted increasingly towards mandated implementation activities.

Power in America shifted first from the East Coast to the West Coast, and then to the South.

COPENHAGEN Political rhetoric has shifted away from the need to respond to the generational challenge of climate change.

Nevertheless, the national consensus has shifted, shaking all assumptions about Israeli politics.

The economic structure was shifted along the line of industrialization and modernization.

Regulators then shifted to edicts requiring banks to maintain a specified capital cushion, thick enough to cover potential losses.

For the past 20 years, it looked as if power was being shifted to a technocratic elite.

During the last ten years its operations have gradually shifted ever more to focusing on scheduled flights.

During 1964 the Lei Feng campaign shifted gradually from doing good deeds to a cult of Mao.

Upon the outbreak of war, the company, along with most other manufacturing enterprises, shifted to war work.

As one participant put it, The debate has shifted from what to do to how and when to do it.

Second, and more important, voter attitudes have shifted significantly during the past decade.

The good news is that the intellectual climate has shifted decisively against them.

Responsibility to protect

This caused much of the uneven ground which is the result of ground shifted to the opposite elevation.

As a result, the emphasis has shifted from preventing discrimination in legislation to considering differences in policy effects.

Asset prices shifted, and capital rushed out of emerging markets, causing credit conditions to tighten and exchange rates to fall.

In some countries, such as China, with the realization that climate change is not only an environmental issue but also affects every aspect of economy and society, the overall responsibility has been shifted from the Meteorological Service to the Ministry of Science, and eventually to a multi ministerial coordination committee for climate change.