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

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

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

Jack Horner Shape shifting dinosaurs

Shifting the Afghan Great Game

Encouraged by a religiously influenced administration, school systems are shifting their focus from science to values.

The experts recognized that the world s health problems are shifting away from communicable diseases toward NCDs.

If the Chinese are successful in shifting away from North Korea, they have to pivot somewhere.

Lewis Pugh's mind shifting Everest swim

But today, the balance is shifting.

Shifting geopolitical power also breeds uncertainty.

China could usefully explore shifting part of the burden from labor toward property, capital gains, and inheritance taxes.

We need to use energy far more wisely while shifting from fossil fuels to low carbon energy sources.

To revive growth in the short run, India must improve supply, which means shifting from consumption to investment.

Meanwhile, its British counterpart, Tesco, is shifting away from the large hypermarket format and investing heavily in online systems.

Finally, Europe s energy mix is gradually shifting from the one that it needs to reach its climate change goals.

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

Such emissions can be eliminated by either shifting to renewable forms of energy or reducing the emissions from fossil fuels.

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

It moves economic growth away from a dangerous over reliance on external demand, while shifting support to untapped internal demand.

In other words, Germany s role in the world economy is shifting from that of a producer to that of a merchant.

James Acton for Carnegie Endowment for International Peace suggested a more subtle approach of shifting the focus from denuclearization to nonproliferation.

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.

If the Chinese are successful in shifting away from North Korea, they have to pivot somewhere. And that place is South Korea.

The hard part of fully realizing potential growth is shifting the composition of domestic demand from consumption to investment without adding leverage.

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.

As our understanding of depression grows and we see that it is a recurring problem, the emphasis is shifting from cure to prevention.

This challenge is particularly difficult, because economic policy has not focused primarily on the adverse distributional trends arising from shifting global market outcomes.

Even more significant, shifting income from state owned enterprises to middle class workers and increasing consumer spending will reduce China s enormous saving rate.

I have long advocated shifting the Bank s center of gravity from lending to outright grants, a policy that the Bush administration strongly endorses.

Shifting from emergency disaster response to more proactive disaster prevention, risk reduction and mitigation will, in our view, be the key to success.

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.

German politicians would thus seem to be suffering from some serious delusions about the importance of gold and the effects of shifting its location.

In other words, rather than shifting from investment led to consumer led growth, China appears to be continuing along its investment led growth track.

They arise mainly from an increasingly integrated global economy s shifting technological landscape but they have been exacerbated by a systematic pattern of public sector underinvestment.

With public sectors offering an increased number of services, the focus is shifting from what kinds of services are provided to how they are provided.

UNDP posted an increase of 17.3 per cent (from 2.4 billion in 2003 to 2.8 billion in 2004), shifting its delivery to the second highest.

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

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

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.

The concept of a global society is emerging, with shifting relationships between the North and the South, most notably away from the giver and receiver model.