But this cozy assumption overlooks a tectonic shift in Turkey s geo political position.

About 25 million years ago, a shift in plate tectonic movements began to contort and crumple the region.

The Turks, they think, will fatalistically accept any snub. But this cozy assumption overlooks a tectonic shift in Turkey s geo political position.

Listen carefully these days to Israelis and South Koreans. What they are hinting at is no less than a tectonic shift in the international system the shift from a unipolar to a multipolar world.

Because almost all major actors on the international stage are redefining their roles in response to this tectonic shift, Europe must do the same.

An article in The Far Eastern Economic Review proclaims that Wall Street s crack up presages a global tectonic shift the beginning of the decline of American power.

But if the coalition works and lasts, then we will see not so much a political volcano in Britain as a real shift in the tectonic plates.

A great Eurasian bloc suddenly appeared in opposition to America s hegemonic global pretensions, prefiguring a new fluidity in geopolitical relationships, if not a tectonic shift in alignments.

It is a tectonic shift to the East with shattering implications, says Calestous Juma, a Kenyan professor at Harvard University who advises the African Union on technology policy.

But what is happening in the Arab world is not a series of transactions it is a tectonic cultural shift in terms of generational attitudes, gender relations, and urban rural tensions.

The Middle East is undergoing a tectonic shift the Shia awakening. As with the slow, sure movement of the earth s plates, this deep, broad, underlying transformation is manifesting itself in local, destructive eruptions.

But if the coalition works and lasts, then we will see not so much a political volcano in Britain as a real shift in the tectonic plates. Nothing will be quite the same again.

So this is the system that I'm talking about, off the west coast. It's coincident with the tectonic plate, the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate.

And the same thing about tectonic plates, you know?

This is closely related to tectonic and volcanic activity of planets.

It is equally clear that Asian states are not yet ready to assume the more meaningful leadership in global affairs that will be necessary to ensure that this tectonic shift can make the world more stable and secure than it has been.

As the tectonic plates of world politics shift, Germany must be more precise in defining its own contributions to maintaining existing structures of international order and establishing new ones. We must think more deeply about ways to safeguard valuable public goods the seas, space, and the Internet.

One of the more dramatic types of tectonic features found on Enceladus are rifts.

The three largest and deepest tectonic lakes of the Balkan Peninsula are partly located in Albania.

The shift system operates in a morning shift from 8.45 to about 13.00, and an afternoon shift until about 18.30.

The shift system operates in a morning shift from 8.45 to about 13.00, and an afternoon shift until about 18.30.

It was a time when the tectonic plates of the financial system seemed to be shifting beneath us.

The Benham Plateau to the east in the Philippine Sea is an undersea region active in tectonic subduction.

June 28 The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) has produced images of key tectonic features in Aeolis Mensae.

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Both books view the recent rise of India and China as shifting the world s economic and political tectonic plates.

Intermontane Plate, an ancient oceanic tectonic plate on the west coast of North America about 195 million years ago.

The Southeast Indian Ridge (SEIR) is a divergent tectonic plate boundary located along the seafloor of the southern Indian Ocean.

The Southwest Indian Ridge (SWIR) is a divergent tectonic plate boundary located along the floor of the southwest Indian Ocean.

Seamounts provide data on movements of tectonic plates on which they ride, and on the rheology of the underlying lithosphere.

That shift is understandable.

In the European Union, on the other hand, since the shift occurs at 01 00 UTC, the autumn shift happens an hour later than the spring shift, local time.

My shift ends at five.

China s shift has been dramatic.

Needless to say, the ability to comprehend change has become indispensable at a time when the world is experiencing tectonic geopolitical shifts.

An economic shift also needs to be carried out by Europe and Japan a shift from deflation to reflation.

An economic shift also needs to be carried out by Europe and Japan a shift from deflation to reflation.

The age of the ocean, the tectonic plates, gives rise to a totally new phenomenon that we have heard about in this conference.

With little knowledge of China s tectonic changes, foreigners have been investing, buying, trading, and extravagantly praising its amazing, but hell bent, economic boom.

Indonesia's location on the edges of the Pacific, Eurasian, and Australian tectonic plates makes it the site of numerous volcanoes and frequent earthquakes.

The physiography of the province is the result of tectonic extension that began around 17 Ma (million years ago) in Early Miocene time.

Paddy Ashdown The global power shift

When events shift, it becomes obsolete.

The Night Watchman State s Last Shift

Reversing this shift quickly seems impossible.