"There is a recognition that there hasn't been a sweeping shift or a change in the votes," Mr. Kennedy said.
Yet all three of his choices — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as the rival turned secretary of state; Gen. James L. Jones, the former NATO commander, as national security adviser, and Robert M. Gates, the current and future defense secretary — have embraced a sweeping shift of priorities and resources in the national security arena.
In the final major rally of his campaign, Ralph Nader issued a populist call for a sweeping "shift of power" from big business to the downtrodden and disenfranchised, and he urged the country to vote its conscience, not its fears.
A26 In the final major rally of his campaign, Ralph Nader issued a populist call for a sweeping "shift of power" from big business to the downtrodden and disenfranchised, and he urged the country to vote its conscience, not its fears.
But the sweeping shift in attitudes has left collectors stuck with items they say they purchased in good faith many years ago from reputable dealers.
Moreover, as the struggle to wean the economy away from fossil fuels continues, only public lands, with their unified federal ownership, are susceptible to the kind of sweeping shift in national energy policy necessary to "keep it in the ground".
Completed in October 1975, this landmark study introduced a novel probabilistic, systematic and holistic approach to the assessment of safety, which ultimately resulted in a sweeping paradigm shift in safety design and regulation of nuclear power in the United States in the turn of the Century.
Hu Jintao, a 59-year-old insider known as brilliant and bland, was named chief of the Communist Party today, the point man in a sweeping generational shift of the nation's leadership that was achieved through the most orderly transition in the 81-year history of the party.
Its decision to demolish Prospect Plaza was not the result of a sweeping policy shift, but of the failure of a renovation project that became bogged down in years of administrative, financial and legal problems.
