The backlog prompted the closure of the M20 between the Maidstone and Ashford turn-offs to allow for the complex operation to shift non-freight traffic off the motorway and onto the A20 to make room for the hundreds of lorries waiting to board ferries and trains for France.
The FCC plans to use a complex auction to shift a large swath of public airwaves from carrying TV signals to delivering wireless services to smartphones and other data-hungry mobile devices.
And it feels true, too, to the mutable structure of identity, that complex, composite "we," liable to shift and break and reshape itself as we recall certain pieces of our earlier lives and suppress others.
What is certain is that financial firms, especially on Wall Street and in the City of London, love derivatives, and have hired an army of mathematicians and physicists to work as "financial engineers", creating complex new derivatives to shift risk around the financial system.
One solution to this complex problem is to shift the focus of international studies away from system-wide characteristics of emergency care.
The traditional focus on opposites in images of children – cute vs. starving; happy vs. sad; positive vs. negative; solution vs. problem; even colour vs. black-and-white - needs to be broadened for two major reasons: to better address the specifics of complex issues and to shift photographic depictions of children to the vast middle ground where most children actually live out their lives.
In its later stages, however, the conflict became increasingly complex due to shifting alliances, with a sub-group of the Nuer fighting alongside the government.
Rather, men's complex responses to shifting gender relations reflect the fact that they often have witnessed (or perceived) decreases in men's economic opportunities alongside improvements in women's status at the occupational, community, relationship and household levels, as well as enhancements in the protection of women's rights at the societal level.
At present, many multinationals avoid local taxes by using a complex network of companies to shift profits elsewhere.
Under the revised terms of the complex transaction, SoftBank agreed to shift over about $1.5 billion earmarked for Sprint itself to the company's shareholders instead.
