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He found a shift in government policy.

Sorry, sir. I had to adjust for a wind shift.

Well, yeah, considering that other climate shifts take thousands of years, this one is pretty abrupt.

And as a result, the nutrition of the general population improved tremendously and population soared in the early 1800s and so the shift of power from southern to northern Europe continued.

As always, there is more to a major cultural change than simply a shift in economics.

The researchers wanted to see how the mole rats responded to this shift.

This, along with other policy shifts toward free trade, resulted in a significant increase in traffic through the Sound and in the port of Copenhagen.

We spend a lot of time on portrays in this class and moving from painting people to painting objects, might feel like a big shift.

Professor:Right. And we think there was an abundance of edible plants and animals in the area at that time that make this shift away from a nomadic lifestyle possible.

These extreme shifts would have put a lot of stress on the bodies of animals that were used to a more moderate range of temperatures.

The flotation samples from the excavations allowed botanists to study shifts in plant-collecting habits as if they were looking through a telescope at a changing landscape.

The politician wants to use the media to shift public opinion.

The emphasis should be shifted more towards Parliament.

Not the bank, you. Can you shift things around, restructure?

Maybe you could switch shifts with someone.

If the artificial Sun remained stationary, the birds would shift their direction with respect to it at a rate of about 15 degrees per hour, the Sun's rate of movement across the sky.

Then in the second part of the experiment, the magnetic field was altered but only for the trip home, a specially constructed set of magnets was used to shift the magnetic field around the habitat 19 degrees eastward.

The new railroad networks shifted the direction of western trade.

He stopped, shifting his cane to his left hand.

And so, um, in response to these gradual climatic swings, some species have shifted their ranges hundreds of kilometers.

The transmission allows the driver to shift gears by using buttons on the steering wheel.

Small farming communities dotted the grasslands and forest margins of eastern West Africa, all of them depending on what is called shifting agriculture.

Shifting agriculture, often called slash-and-burn, was highly adaptive for savanna farmers without plows, for it allowed cereal farming with the minimal expenditure of energy.

The entire pile shifted and slid, thumping onto the floor.

He shifted from foot to foot.

The wind has shifted to the south.

His eyes shifted to the telephone.

Maybe the ground vibrates, or maybe the ground itself is shifting, tilting.

We’re not yet sure why the focus of life shifted southward only that it did.

But when corn came to Europe from Mexico, well, now they had a much hardier crop that could be grown easily in more northerly climates and the centers of power began to shift accordingly.

Gradually, the center of railroad financing shifted to New York City, and in fact, it was the railroad boom of the 1850s that helped make Wall Street in New York City the nation's greatest capital market.

So one theory is that the river’s course shifted toward the South, and they simply followed it and built new towns to the South.

Attitudes to mental illness have shifted in recent years.

Yes. And often it shifts to a submissive posture too.

There's a gradual shift of people from the country to the town.

But this would change, because in the same period of geologic time there was a shift in the earth’s continental plates.

Call centre workers can arrange to work different shifts.

His shift starts at 8 o'clock.

They prefer to work the late shift.

How are we going to shift these stains?

Clearly, it is time to shift our focus.

I couldn't shift the wardrobe on my own.

Her husband tried to shift the blame by accusing her of being overly suspicious.

It was a vain attempt to shift the responsibility for the murder onto somebody else.

He shifted into top gear.