It merely shifted from left to right.

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

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

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

Thus, insidiously, the burden of proof is shifted.

Hirschman s interests shifted away from economic development over the course of his illustrious career.

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

The focus has shifted.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 2020 the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link is expected to be complete with much of this international traffic being shifted from the Great Belt Fixed Link.

But, this year, with signs of economic recovery emerging, advanced countries have quickly shifted from fiscal stimulus to fiscal consolidation.

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

Many subsequently matured politically, revised their worldview, and shifted from armed to unarmed activism, forming political parties and contesting elections.

It is not clear whether these resources are additional to overall future aid commitments by donors or are simply shifted from other allocations within the same aid budget.

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

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.

Yet we know from a range of evidence that this is what was on Bush s mind when his government shifted its focus from the search for Osama bin Laden to fighting a war in Iraq.

China s balance in ordinary trade shifted from a surplus of 38 billion in 2005 to a deficit of 48 billion in 2010.

However, available data suggest that, as in developed countries, the sectoral composition of outward FDI from developing countries has shifted towards services.

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

Goal posts should not be selectively shifted beyond legal obligations.

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

And he has shifted the focus of US foreign policy from what countries do within their borders to how they act beyond them.

Public opinion in the majority nationalist community (who sought greater independence from Britain) had shifted during the war from a demand for home rule to one for full independence.

Over the past six months, attention and worry have shifted from America s enormous trade deficit to its surging property markets and real estate bubble.

UNICEF has shifted the emphasis of its cooperation from small scale interventions with specific groups to supporting capacities in national systems as a whole.

On the whole, the centre of activities in this area should be shifted from the Security Council to specific everyday situations in international life.

Its use by the ethnic Siwi population is in decline, as most have shifted to Arabic as their primary language.

During the independence period, Muslim Muhajirs from India migrated in large numbers and shifted their domicile to Pakistan, especially to the port city of Karachi, which is today the largest metropolis in Pakistan.

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

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

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

It has shifted its focus from the price of credit to influencing the credit cycle s quantity dimension through the liquidity injections that quantitative easing requires.

Its center has shifted from Iraq (where sectarian strife has recently escalated again) to Syria, but it encompasses Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and Tunisia as well.

When a stressed monarchy shifted from state management and direct shipments of grain to monetary charity in the mid 19th century, the system broke down.