Sentence examples for a violent shift in from inspiring English sources

After the score, McNabb pumped his fists furiously, knowing the game's momentum had just taken a violent shift in his team's direction.

That first novel was a child's-eye view of a violent shift in society, and the spread of extremist sects, compounded by a crackdown after an attempt on the life of the ruling general – as happened in Pakistan in 1982.

Indeed vacation time has been slowly disappearing for American workers ever since the Reagan Revolution, which ushered in a violent shift in corporate culture away from the paternalistic post-New Deal model towards the current stock-price-is-God model.

CAIRO — The Syrian government said "armed gangs" had slaughtered at least 120 police officers, security personnel and civilians in a town near its border with Turkey on Monday, an account that, if true, suggests a violent shift in the uprising against Syria's hard-line leadership.

A violent shift of opinion against Napoleon appeared in Russia.

Mr. Turner, who was not on the scene on Sunday, was asked if he could have predicted the violent shift in fire direction that killed the firefighters.

They rightly point out the violent shift in net lending, minus 13% since late 2007.

The chase, often paired in discussion with a New York City counterpart from William Friedkin's "French Connection", featured McQueen doing some of his own driving: a camera placed in the car and peering out the windshield registers the violent shifts in the driver's perspective as the car bounds in chassis-challenging fashion over San Francisco's famous hills.

Even when the SNP surged ahead in 2007, it could only govern in a minority, so could not call a referendum on independence (see charts below).The disadvantage of first-past-the-post systems, however, is that by raising the threshold of parliamentary dominance, they contain the possibility of sudden, violent shifts in political power in the event of individual parties crossing that threshold.

Beginning with William Stanley Jevons and Clément Juglar in the 1860s, economists attempted to explain the cycles of frequent, violent shifts in economic activity.

But Kent's chief achievement is to heighten the violent shifts of tone in Sondheim's masterly music and lyrics and in Hugh Wheeler's book.