Sentence examples for a substantive shift in from inspiring English sources

But evidence for a substantive shift in consumption habits is pretty slight, as this article by economists at the Center for American Progress suggests.

What began as a few dissidents questioning the pledge not to raise taxes that Norquist has championed over the past two decades — a pledge the vast majority of Republicans in both chambers have signed — is threatening to turn into something bigger: a substantive shift in policy, and a symbolic torching of outdated dogmas, with Grover on the top of the bonfire.

The late nineteenth century saw the beginning of a substantive shift in Canadian immigration patterns.

So if the NFL has yet to enact a substantive shift in its or its teams' attitudes toward domestic violence and the treatment of women, it's because the league's actions in the wake of the Rice case were never meant to have that effect.

BERLIN, May 7 (Reuters) - Germany is ruling out any substantive shift in its approach to Europe's debt crisis despite a rising chorus of opposition to Berlin's austerity policies that reached a crescendo in Sunday's elections in Greece and France.

In other words, if anything, this week's appointments would seem to represent a continuation of the ideological course Mr. Obama has been following since before he took the oath of office, rather than any substantive shift in his worldview.

This strong showing was seen by many as an indicator of a larger and more substantive shift in U.S. regional engagement.

Although other complicated steps would remain for a complete normalization of relations, embassies and ambassadors would mark a highly symbolic and significantly substantive shift in the two countries' fraught dealings.

While the birth of jihadism in Tripoli can be ascribed to the outset of the civil war in 1975, the beginning of the substantive shift in the character of Sunni Islam in Tripoli may be dated to 1947, when the Salafist Sheikh Salim al-Shahal returned from Saudi Arabia to Tripoli to find the first Wahhabi-orientated Salafist movement.

So, for example, if we want seriously to tackle social injustice or to make an ageing population an asset, not a burden, it will require a strong and consistent framework of policies, substantive shifts in social norms and expectations, and new ways for individuals to pursue their interests.

The changes are emblematic of the substantive shifts in the once-staid world of utilities as deregulation and competition require suppliers of natural gas, electricity and telephone service to vie for the attention of fickle consumers along with the purveyors of products like soft drinks, automobiles and fast food.