How To Use Shifting In A Sentence

His self-image is rooted in robotic toughness, like the shape-shifting, molten-metal fiend in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
It is also shifting plenty of feminine, lacy lingerie, in the kind of bright colours that go well with a sun tan.
The goal of shifting freight from road to rail has been quietly abandoned.
She speculated that the shifting social status of women during the war years stoked male anxiety about female bonding and independence from men.
I felt that weird shifting movement and a feathery light object grazed my bare skin.

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The partisans fought a revolutionary war in a constantly shifting pattern, and their leadership did so with a political aim.
The "SynchroRev Match" function automatically controls and adjusts engine speed when shifting to the speed of the next gear position, essentially "blipping" the throttle to smooth out any up / down shifts. Autoblog
Putting it all together yields a compelling story: European banks are shifting their cash assets out of European banks and putting much of them into US banks.
As a result, the nexus of America's dairy industry is shifting to such places as New Mexico and Idaho with cheap land and fewer people to complain about the smells wafting from a 5,000-cow dairy farm.
The action of a mutual fund or portfolio manager shifting investment assets from one sector of the economy to another.
Either it had been moved by someone, or something as was more likely, or it had been covered by the shifting sands of the desert.
In a world of shifting boundaries, vanishing borders, and proliferating frontiers, security is even more difficult to achieve.
The shifting of language in communities may in fact be accelerating with increased mobility and technological advances.
Local fishing crews had told him of the Lombok Strait's fiendishly shifting currents, vicious whirlpools, and unexpected waves far from shore.
Moravec takes the opening of the first in a way that connects with Bartók's piano dances, with shifting accents.
These pachyderms, originally kept at the Kozhikamudhi working campsite are used for entertaining tourists, conducting elephant safari and for removing fallen trees or for shifting logs.
Some have been there for so many hundreds of years that they have buckled with the shifting of the earth and the passage of time.
Her main accomplishment is sort of shifting the rhetoric of the administration's foreign policy away from this kind of unilateralist, "with us or against us" approach that we saw first term. CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2006
Do the economics of downshifting to a more frugal car stack up? Times, Sunday Times
The high rains supports forests of karri (Eucalyptus diversicolor) and tingle (E. brevistylis, E. jacksonii, and E. guilfoylei), shifting to jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) and marri (Eucalyptus calophylla) in areas with lower nutrient soils. Jarrah-Karri forest and shrublands
These offer information about shifting shoals, sandbars and such that can be critical for boaters and productive for fishers.
He has continued trying to change, shifting from dreamlike visions to clear landscapes, from oneiric symbols to poems about friends. The Times Literary Supplement
Benjamin's scrutiny of Matisse is thus complex, shifting, and polyvalent, while at times even seeming to work against his own claims.
You have the balloon effect for shifting coca production, what I call the cockroach effect for how the cartels jump from one region to the next, and then there's the whack-a-mole policy to try to deal with all of it," says Bruce Bagley, a political scientist at the University of Miami and an expert on the global drug trade. Cocaine: The New Front Lines
Her father glowered down at her a moment before shifting his hard stare to Robert.
The real problem with assessing popular sentiment over the 1790s is the interplay of contradictory forces shifting it between radicalism and loyalism.
There also is a perceptible delay when downshifting from fourth to third.
After one or two weeks, when the shifting is over, I will be able to provide you with the necessary mantra and yantra for prapti siddhi.
Except it looked to me like he was watching something, his own collapsing infrastructure perhaps, his expression shifting between blankness and surprise. Imperfect endings
Prompted by this discovery, researchers are developing biomaterials specifically for the regeneration and repair of tissue, shifting the emphasis from replacement of tissues to regeneration.
He notices, on the outer surface of the ashtray, a diagram of the shifting pattern of the four-speed transmission.
Moreover, each vehicle had to be capable, during each patrol, of traveling some 2,000 miles over unmapped, inhospitable terrain, and scorching, shifting sands.
Armed with this tool, an ID proponent can "disprove" evolution by simply shifting between the two conflicting definitions without reference to anything about the original structure. A Decade Spanning Single Exchange
From shifting narrative perspective, the way of narration and epiphany. this article proves Katherine Mansfield's remarkable contribution to the forming of modern short novel techniques.
Their parts evolve in a kinetic parallax of curves and angles that create a shifting perceptual spectacle.
It is also shifting plenty of feminine, lacy lingerie, in the kind of bright colours that go well with a sun tan.
As to her own ordeal, Henry told her there was a name for the strange, shifting images you see just before sleep: they were called hypnagogic hallucinations, and they often occurred in connection with sleep paralysis. Incubus
For a while, the Treasury can temporize with creative accounting, shifting money from one pile to another, and the like. The Debt Ceiling Fiasco
They may also be implemented in the context of broader economic issues, such as shifting the tax burden from labour to non-renewable resources through an ecotax at the national or multinational level (see chapter 11). Chapter 9
While shifting to billiards is too provocative for Washington, if trends continue, it may soon find itself behind the eight ball with few options for maintaining its stabilizing role in the region. Billiards in the South China Sea
For example, the insulin reduces fatty acid uptake and could therefore indirectly inhibit gluconeogenesis, as fatty acids have shown to stimulate gluconeogenesis in vitro; alternatively, the insulin could be shifting away the precursors of the gluconeogenic pathway. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
For the state sector, its role is shifting from provider of limited and fragmented services to subsidizer, regulator, monitor and provider in some fields.
For Welish, the seasoned experimentalist, a central question which has never lost its urgency hinges upon what the lyric can comprehend, what it can grasp in its shifting abode.
People were shifting in their seats, looking uncomfortable.
And in the world of imperial corporate media, there are no such things as the Iraqi resistance (to the U.S. occupation), resistance fighters, or even a U.S. occupation; even if there are, the labels aremade to appeartoo mild or otherwise inappropriateby a flurry of inflammatory quotes from “official sources,” orby immediatelyshifting the focusonto somenegative act committed last week or even decades ago by theanti-occupationactors. When Corporate Media Were Imperial Shills, or: Now and Always
But now there is a real move back towards downshifting, taking more time and space. The Sun
The only honest information would have been that about 97 percent of the world’s relevant scientists overwhelming agree that climate change couldn’t be more real and is a genuine danger to humanity and the planet -- and that the evidence is all around us in freakish weather, rising oceans, melting arctic ice and glaciers, shifting habitats, and more. Rebecca Solnit: Jurassic Ballot: When Corporations Ruled the Earthrop 23
Every perception enters an imaginal file, buds in arrest until swayed by a life-shifting rain or the blight of the news of an unknown person's death.
The general concept of work is also shifting from man-machine interaction to man-man interaction with machines as aids. 10.
The SynchroRev Match (TM) function automatically controls and adjusts engine speed when shifting to the exact speed of the next gear position, essentially "blipping" the throttle to smooth out any up/down shifts. Undefined
As the north-easterly gradually takes control of the Northern Gulf, as is usual at this time of the year, it nevertheless features relatively light, shifting winds, interspersed with at times ferocious, front-line squalls.
Of course, the excitement is dependent upon the wind and lately it has been shifting between the customary north-easterlies and southerlies.
From the materials of the house itself he draws unexpected resonances, candescent onyx balancing pellucid glass, and that glass itself shifting between aspects. The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
Shifting winds blew clouds of spray over the rocks, trees, and shrubs until they seemed to be sheathed in alabaster.
How to assess and test the capability of peak-load shifting of cool storage air- conditioning is always the emphasis of the government and industry concerns.
Long, irregular phrases evoke a kind of story-telling, and the use of multiple violas creates a panorama of shifting perspectives.
Major cabinet turnovers have been rare, although chancellors occasionally have reshuffled their cabinets, shifting a minister from one post to another.
She fidgeted on her spot, shifting from one foot to another as an uncomfortable silence filled the air, but she was saved when her stomach started grumbling loudly.
Recently, Rende explored the role of set shifting in verbal fluency, which is a subfunction of the central executive system.
They are poring over the shifting electoral background thrown up by the general election.
The shifting from the wagon-lit has begun at the Italian frontier. Tender is the Night
Girlfriend Emma and best mate Danny, meanwhile, chart the shifting balance of hopes and fears of friends and family.
It was still memorable to see the shifting shadows and scuds of rain across the lake and the green volcanic hills - and it all lit up with sunshine and breathtaking scenery on the final day.
Other trackways start or stop abruptly, with no sign that the animals’ missing tracks were covered by some disturbance such as shifting sediments.
Mood may be labile, shifting from depression to euphoria or elation to fear and panic.
We clawed our way up a high mountain ridge covered in fine, shifting talus and on the far side got caught in a thunderstorm.
Stocking brings new insights to the volumes by concentrating on the contents of the texts and how they reflect the shifting nature of anthropological thinking.
My nervous dance consists of much weight-shifting and hand gestures similar to the mating dance of the blue-footed booby.
Due to numerous states' slow recovery from the economic downturn and the shrinkage of state tax revenues in the last few years, more and more states have directed their attention to intercorporate transactions and income shifting schemes. August 2005
He wanted to have a few vampires try shifting to werewolves in the battle.
Yllis says, still looking pouty, but clearly doing her own shifting. Amaryllis in Blueberry
However, the bullet in Rocio brain is moving, shifting.
For a peaceful world that promotes international democracy, the locus of power and influence needs shifting.
The title article calls for “retrenchment” in the “humanitarian missions” abroad that are consuming the country’s wealth, so as to arrest the American decline that is a major theme of international affairs discourse, usually accompanied by the corollary that power is shifting to the East, to China and maybe India. Noam Chomsky: "Losing" the World
Furthermore, the shifting definition of an Elandsklower included and later excluded certain individuals from the register.
When all the politics is over, when the petty manoeuvring, the skin-saving, the back-protecting and the blame-shifting of this whole unlovely affair are put to one side, it is this that sticks most in the throat.
Several weekends ago on Governors Island, well over a thousand people were dancing to a 12-piece orchestra that played mostly foxtrots, shifting from red-hot stomps by Fletcher Henderson to smooth two-beat show tunes by George Gershwin. A Retro Jazz Movement With a Good Dance Beat
And as the last few miles had shown, the Defiant wasn't a great winter car - the defroster took forever, and shifting was a botheration.
Some jokes fall flat, shifting the harmonic balance from whimsy to awkward.
Per the network and ABC Studios' agreement with "Lost" exec producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, the island-hopping/time-shifting/ smoke-monstering series is due to flash into history at the end of next season. Franklin Avenue
But this interruption also blocks the passage of ideas by shifting emphasis away from the signified.
Luckily, in downshifting we didn't need one. Times, Sunday Times
Picture a remote estuary entrance, a day's travel from anywhere civilised, the tide is deceptive as it rushes in and out of the gulf, shifting the sands into deep spots every day.
Malls are fluid constructs, shifting and reshuffling to meet the whims of fashion and the market, but you assume that a few places will stay around forever.
Which brings us to the last dichotomy: the shifting relation between television and its audiences.
A strategic plan for secure and sustained energy would have many elements — shifting imports to more stable, friendlier countries, exploiting more domestic resources, pursuing alternative energy sources, and rapidly promoting the use of breakthrough technologies such as the thermal depolymerization process (that can extract crude oil from refuse ranging from old tires to agricultural waste) — but it will require leadership to set goals and coordinate action. Gasoline Hysteria, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
She altered the composition by shifting the house to the right and filling in the left with a bucolic scene of a shepherd and shepherdess with a small flock of sheep.
And now units of this vagrom and unstable street throng, which was forever shifting and changing about them, seemed to sense the psychologic error of all this in so far as these children were concerned, for they would nudge one another, the more sophisticated and indifferent lifting an eyebrow and smiling contemptuously, the more sympathetic or experienced commenting on the useless presence of these children. An American Tragedy
Although the balance of power is shifting against the commission, in absolute terms it will gain power.
Thus, a piece of fiction usually begins with an imperfective verb by way of introduction (“I was sleeping”); then, shifting into a perfective verb, the narrative launches into the plot (“I woke”). The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
The van started shifting towards the right, slowly pushing Pete into the curb, leaving him nowhere to go except on the grass.
Campaigners complain that shifting the butter mountain into developing countries stifles agricultural trade, by crowding out domestic farmers who can't compete with the might of the EU.
Up and down, shifting and tilting, suddenly spinning when I least expect it -- at no time have I even had the chance to sit back and enjoy the thing without worrying what may be coming with the next gyration. The Challenge of A Bend in the Road
Cook also argued that a per-gallon excise tax would mean that cheap liquor and expensive spirits are taxed equivalently, thus shifting the liquor tax burden onto less affluent residents who buy inexpensive booze. Beer and wine wholesaler analysis shows spirits excise tax hike under McDonnell ABC plan
With the lie of Scottish theatreland already shifting, we are seeing a nascent, semiconscious shuffling for position for next year's awards.
As a result, hypotaxis, or syntactic subordination, has a very different role in German, which clearly marks each subordinate clause not only with commas but also by shifting its verb to the very end, so that we can easily tell which clause is describing foreground and which background. The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
So the Fed is shifting from its usual policy of buying only short-term debt, and is now buying long-term debt — a policy generally referred to as "quantitative easing.
In a clearing between clouds we could see just ahead an area of large seracs where the shifting glacier had cleaved into blocks.
The old medieval concept of an absolute ruler imbued with divine authority was being challenged by the shifting economic reality and the monarchy was constantly being called on to justify itself.
The drum machine offbeats are still present, but instead of snarky basslines and slow grinds, the song features a wistfully high organ stomp, and shifting tempos throughout.
It is not a simple ribbon of water running northward; the Gulf Stream is a complex system of constantly shifting currents and eddies that parallel the coast at speeds that average about four miles per hour. The Atlantic and Its Warm, Blue River
There was a slight shifting, and then Carrie had the sheet pulled tightly around her in a warm little cocoon.
There is also an overhead countershaft with strap shifting arrangement. Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891
University campuses are always some of the most interesting places from which to view a shifting world.
Co-workers may be a permanent team or a constantly shifting flux of diverse people.
The new direction was toward shifting responsibility away from the federal government, which indicated a diminished civil works role for the Corps of Engineers.
Her shadow flickered across the wall behind her, tail lashing in disquiet, inhuman muscles shifting as she moved.
But Oakland wouldn't make an error by shifting its focus and homing in on one of the premier quarterbacks; after all, incumbent Rich Gannon is 38.
He notices, on the outer surface of the ashtray, a diagram of the shifting pattern of the four-speed transmission.
Some boreal species in the Barents Sea have responded to environmental change by shifting their biogeographical borders [18] (Fig. 9.27). Past variability in Arctic marine systems
Her voice was bird-like, the trill of a mockingbird, ever changing, ever shifting.
The word "belie" seems to like shifting its meaning in baffling ways. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
Her back was straight and her eyes were closed and unmoving, not even the shifting of the eye looking behind its curtain.
These tree belts effectively protect the farmland against shifting sand.
Fortunately, therapeutic paradigms are shifting, and clinicians have many new agents in their armamentarium for combating fungal infection.
“Going somewhere?” he interjected, his gaze shifting to her trunk, where a pair of lacy pantalets trailed from the open top. The Highlander’s Stolen Bride
The tip-off has been heralded as a major intelligence coup, but the detainee's shifting loyalties to al Qaeda over the years also underscore the challenges in battling the group. World Watch
The tale of the Sickness of the Men of Ulster features the gynandrous horse goddess Macha who is associated with shape shifting.
Such a viewpoint does not quite mean ‘getting rid’ of problems, but rather shifting one's focus.
These shifting patterns of coadaptation are further shaped by the geographic structure of most species.
They learned the ways of the fish and the shell-fish, and they invented hooks and lines, nets and fish-traps, and all the diverse cunning ways by which swimming meat can be garnered from the shifting, unstable sea. CHAPTER X
The burden of 'bailer-out of last resort' is shifting from German taxpayers to holders of debt. Borrowing Costs Rise for Weak In Europe
Ideas can add to knowledge in an accretionary manner, or in a revolutionary, paradigm-shifting way, depending on their influence.
The total effect was surprisingly focused and intimate, with Gabriel's confessional singing style providing an emotional anchor for the ever-shifting visuals.
The immediate impact of the shifting policies will vary across the state.
This can be done either by putting a screw thread of the correct pitch on the barrel's axle or, more often, by shifting a lever.
A UN administrative force however would have the additional benefit of shifting the perception of the international force from that of occupier to stabiliser.
An uneasy silence and a certain amount of shifting in seats pervades the group.
People boarded and got off the boat at different cities, so we were always working with a shifting team.
In many ways, this shifting snowscape is as uncharted as the day explorers first sighted its mainland almost 200 years ago. For Penguins, a Satellite Census
The transmission's a beauty - a four mode manual auto with superfast 100ms shifting and auto-double declutching on downshifts. Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
It's a novel of stories within stories that aspires to the condition of the imaginary book at its shifting centre - infinitude.
Meanwhile the U.S. demographic is shifting toward a reality where non-white groups are emerging as majorities, undermining what we traditionally held as majority vs. minority, mainstream vs. ethnic.
In this latest reply, however, you seem to be shifting the definition a bit to make it more vague and undefined.
However, it is possible that long-term mowing at the same time of year, while not shifting overall composition, has changed the numeric relationships of the species. Texas blackland prairies
While Savall rang the changes with three medieval bowed instruments - the rebab, rebec, and vielle - Psonis played the santur zither, the Moorish guitar, and a selection of Middle-Eastern drums: the human voice soared above a subtly-shifting kaleidoscope of instrumental colour. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
Shifting the emphasis from matters of taste, discrimination or aesthetics, media education now borrowed from new sources and began to ask new questions.
Our company's adaptation to shifting consumer tastes has been a great success.
Her main accomplishment is sort of shifting the rhetoric of the administration's foreign policy away from this kind of unilateralist, with us or against us approach that we saw in the first term. CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2006
The land around Yellowstone regularly swells and subsides in response to the shifting levels of magma and volcanologists believe that one day the molten magma contained within the chamber will burst out - as it has done many times before.
Many others followed Drucker; Robert Reich coined the phrase "symbolic analysts" much the same as Drucker's "knowledge workers" for those trained to use information in a way that allowed them to thrive in a shifting, information-rich networked world. Robert Teitelman: Svengalis, Bankers and the Role of Intermediaries
But memory is fickle and its criteria are constantly shifting.
Co-workers may be a permanent team or a constantly shifting flux of diverse people.
As he was to give him four hundred pounds, why did he, or Mr. Butt (for they are one and the same) take so much trouble, and go through so much circuity in shifting and changing the bank notes? The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of
Reading the Sangsters' book, which unpicks every last aspect of downshifting, the process itself appears to be as full of trials and tribulations as the daily grind of city life.
They've got the perfect mechanism for shifting expenditures from the public to the private sector.
The subject is space train station: a trapeziform aisle symbolizes transporting in time to show people a time shifting inter-space.
I do think that we should have built the international coalition first, instead of distracting attention and shifting time, effort, and energy away from the war on terror.
The shifting positions on his map give the impression of a lobsters' quadrille being danced.
The consensus view among neo-Darwinians continues to be that evolution is random variation plus structured environmental filtering, but it seems the consensus may be shifting.
The size of solar-power installations is shifting away from the multimegawatt solar farms of Undefined
Harris had Marcia's flaming hair, her fair skin, and her constantly shifting hazel eyes.
Mind you it is doubtful we will see a shallower, more insipid attempt at shifting the blame from the attacker to a victim.
The action of a mutual fund or portfolio manager shifting investment assets from one sector of the economy to another.
Meanwhile the U.S. demographic is shifting toward a reality where non-white groups are emerging as majorities, undermining what we traditionally held as majority vs. minority, mainstream vs. ethnic.
Just changing the crankset will work, but the shifting will not be as crisp as with derailleurs for a double, due to the long derailleur cages and extra chain not meant for those size cogs and chainrings.
Fifteen existing villages of shifting cultivators, and mining settlements for gold, cassiterite and coltan were located in the west section of the Park, though neither they nor the indigenous pygmies were consulted when it was created; and several villages in the buffer zone, where the boundary had never been defined, were sources of conflict. Kahuzi-Biéga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo
She could feel those strong hands shifting her body so that she was facing him.
An unfavorable change in consumer preferences will cause demand to decrease, shifting the curve to the left.
His feet sank deep in the sand, then trod lightly over vast stretches of short sun-burned mesquit, then again traversed hot shifting reaches of naked sand. Lahoma
They were each involved in different aspects of making and conceptualising art, but their ideas were growing and shifting.
In low calcium, nifedipine will have an additive effect of shifting the DHPR to the inactive state, also seen as a decrease in force generation.
They can allocate current resources more efficiently (for instance, by shifting from line item to block funding, differentiating faculty salaries and so forth).
In 1948, the company started producing mahogany and gum tables with leather and mahogany tops, shifting the next year to leather tops exclusively with all genuine Honduras mahogany.
I find the biggest problem people have is deciding what to do for a living after downshifting.
If we go on reading about the puerile wife-swapping, the pubescent sex games, the Marvel Comics Fantastic Four superheroes, and the gratuitous martyrdom, we will gradually come to see our own suburbia as a desert vastation and our own children as Bedouins subsisting on the shifting sand, as refugees from civil war and famine. In the Desert, Prime Time
It expanded into a nebulous circle of shifting light.
The tacky stuff takes some shifting and it's not cheap to do so.
General average: 1st, 12.64 sec.: 2d, 36.45 sec. What is here called ideated movement -- by which is understood the idea of a change in spatial relations which accompanies a shifting of the attention or a change in the mental attitude, as distinguished from the sense of movements actually executed -- was recognized as such by one of the subjects, who says: "When the two objects are before me I am conscious of what seem to be images of movement, or ideated movements, not actual movements. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
These tree belts effectively protect the farmland against shifting sand.
Did you write it in chronological order, or did you keep shifting back and forth between the Korean War period in the early 1950s, New York in the 1980s, and China in the 1930s, as you do in the book? Chang-rae Lee - An interview with author
My mother was never the type to dwell on the things that upset her so I wasn't surprised to find her changing the subject and shifting the focus onto me.
In other words, wishing it to happen won't really make it happen unless there is enough shifting of negotiating positions.
A sassy aria from Zandonai's Carmen-esque Conchita led into Fleming's oft-encored "Summertime" from Porgy and Bess, more restrained than I've heard her do in the past, with Höll giving limpid account of Gershwin's shifting counterpoint. Archive 2009-04-01
Gus's combustible info is relayed in their unmodernized Sunnyside, Brooklyn home, an instantly convincing set -- as are subsequent other shifting locations -- by Mark Wendland. David Finkle: First Nighter: Tony Kushner's Intelligent Homosexual's Guide... Continues Genius Display
Living better on less money, downshifting and redefining ideas about ambition, success and happiness are some of the subjects covered.
When a laird and his wife swapped their Perthshire castle for a tiny Italian farmhouse they were meant to be downshifting on a dramatic scale.
Shifting from one cramped position to another, she caught a glimpse of Malcolm, looking very princely in his crown and royal robes.
The men echoed the women, making for a complex dovetailed sound with shifting tonality and a surprise ending - the final high shimmering chord constructed from string harmonics leaves some mysticism in the air.
The fiddler was a boy of those parts, about twelve years of age, who had a wonderful dexterity in jigs and reels, though his fingers were so small and short as to necessitate a constant shifting for the high notes, from which he scrambled back to the first position with sounds not of unmixed purity of tone. Wessex Tales
The production sounds great and the music is very interesting, with shifting rhythms and moods.
Recent psychophysical and electrophysiological studies have demonstrated that shifting attention to a nonpredictive auditory cue modulates the processing of subsequent visual stimuli at early stages as well as later ones.
The movie theater and subway platform scenes are the most interesting, especially the latter with their perpendicular architectonics and shifting perspectives.
Phin raised an eyebrow before shifting Steph off his shoulder and turning onto his side, casting Dev another thoughtful glance.
The barrier began to waver, cracks limned in shifting coronae of flame appearing as more and more shots dumped their freezing charges into the shield, taxing Ramirez to the limit.
This slight shifting reflects the solvent-excited state interactions and is likely governed primarily by dispersive interactions.
Shifting to inflation indexing OTOH is just a patch on an open sore that solves nothing -- it is regressive, hurting the poor the most, and so will be (and should be) fought by all who think SS's best role is as a safety net for the poor. Social Security Indexing Debate, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
He has continued to cling to the middle ground, but that ground has been shifting.
The power bases are amorphous and scattered; with constantly shifting alliances no one knows which group is allied with which.
In shifting his attention to the universities, the prince has found beneficiaries that are unimpaired by any of the limiting notions that guided Giuliani.
he drifted into the shifting crowd
She felt uncomfortable, shifting under the gaze of the old woman, which seemed to bore right through her.
He was shifting his cramped attitude a little -- a very little -- for about the twentieth time, when a smur of colour showed on the mirror, and the next instant passed into a dark shadow. Corporal Sam and Other Stories
The goal of shifting freight from road to rail has been quietly abandoned.
The fragmented pieces of captured text are projected onto a blank white wall to create subtly shifting images suggestive of bygone worlds.
Ah - and the whole house is actually getting cleaned and dusted, which is one positive outcome of all this shifting stuff around! The decoration is going pretty well
Shifting a dozen feet higher up, he again attacked with pick and shovel. Chapter XXVII
The sight of her eyes constantly shifting from blue to gold did nothing to calm him.
Why aye lads, give wor Cheryl a hand, like.7 Angry Birds – the indie rock versionTwee perfection.8 Banned Belgian dating adJust bizarre.9 Shifting furniture – the Russian wayFake as hell but very Beadle's About which we are obviously in favour of.10 Audi A1 advertWould you buy a car from a rabbit? Viral Video Chart: Street dance, kitten, Chinese grandma does Michael Jackson
This shifting focus in higher education illustrates the need to understand what motivates students to learn.

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