Sentence examples for consequential shift from inspiring English sources

Instead, the most notable and potentially consequential shift came in the Senate, where Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, nominally still No. 3 in the slimmed-down majority party's pecking order, gained new power and responsibility for more closely melding the Democrats' strategy and message between now and the very tough 2012 elections.

Currently, we are in the midst of an equally consequential shift, this time from West to East.

The perhaps most consequential shift of this type in modern economic history was the rise of, first, Europe, then the West following (what is now often called the First) Industrial Revolution.

This is an enormously consequential shift in food and agriculture, and it is a clear signal to everyone concerned that gestation crates and battery cages are soon to be agricultural artifacts like the reaper and the threshing machine.

So are less dramatic but no less consequential shifts in manners and morals, in taste and sensibility.

The slight attention paid to Eleanor of Aquitaine (whose amorous adventures in Palestine, and the consequential shifting of her royal possessions, were the cause of 200 years of conflict between the French and the English), and to Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and Richard the Lionheart disappoint viewers accustomed to the Western chronicles of the Crusades.

I show that meat is distributed to political allies in Conambo and argue that meat is strategically transferred to recruit and maintain coalitional support in a political landscape where loyalties are shifting, crosscutting, and consequential.

On the surface, this shift doesn't seem particularly consequential — it's almost something we take for granted.

First, consider the prosaic but consequential details leading to the Aug. 1 market shift.

What is most consequential about "The War Within" is the evolutionary shift it marks for the author.

The collection of TFs reflects the shift to glucose metabolism and the consequential glucose repression (Rox1, Hap4, Adr1 and Mig1), the resumption of growth (Rap1, Sfp1 and Fhl1) and the release from stress (Msn2, Msn4) during germination.