Sentence examples for before shifting focus from inspiring English sources

Pilots never multitask: if a pilot finds that she has to look at a map, she tells her co-pilot, "It's your airplane," and waits for an affirmative response — "I've got the jet" — before shifting focus.

He's a serial entrepreneur, founding companies like Adly and Cardify, which launched at Disrupt NY 2012, before shifting focus to Tinder.

Octro was founded in 2006, and initially focused on productivity apps, building a mobile VoIP app called OctroTalk, before shifting focus to mobilizing locally popular games.

It raised a $12 million Series A led by Grelock Partners before shifting focus to Verst, which launched earlier this year as a blogging platform that has traffic and revenue optimization tools built in.

Interestingly, the company started as an IT solutions business before shifting focus almost exclusively to healthcare to meet the unique needs of security and to enabling care providers to securely access, communicate, and transact patient health information.

The course will begin with a historical view of the role business has played in cooperation with government and civil society, highlighting key positive and negative events from the past 100 years, before shifting focus to the current state of actions across the private sector.

Before I get to that, let's take a closer look at I.B.M.'s shifting focus and its implications.

Shifting Focus: From M.D. to Ph.D.

The initial product was focused on adding social content to forums (he said he had the initial idea while trying to upgrade forum software) before the company shifted focus to real-time social media content.

Decker described the product as a way "to 'magnetize' the hashtag and have it pull together disconnected posts to create one larger, more powerful conversation". The initial product was focused on adding social content to forums (he said he had the initial idea while trying to upgrade forum software) before the company shifted focus to real-time social media content.

The policy of the first decade of the twenty-first century focused much attention on rural household biogas before shifting its focus to agricultural engineering projects, and those policies supporting biogas development were mainly set up by the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA 2005, 2007; NDRC/MOA 2008).