I hope that David Brooks is right: that the accumulation of administration failures has finally reached the point where the country will demand a shift in the way things are.
An angry leftwing contingent in the party are bound to demand a shift away from the centre, saying they had warned Clegg repeatedly he was marching the party towards annihilation.
Unite and its Scouser general secretary Len McCluskey are the most influential, and demand a shift in direction from Labour as well as unapologetically supporting strikes and civil disobedience.
An oil firm, by contrast, cannot tell if crude will sell for $150 a barrel five years hence, or for a fraction of that.But the move to gas, and to shale-gas in particular, demands a shift in the majors' business models.
As opposition figures in Britain renew criticism of Mr. Blair's support for the United States and demand a shift in American tactics in Iraq, the British authorities seemed at pains on Sunday to underline their support for the White House just days before the prime minister meets Mr. Bush.
As efforts like these gain steam, a growing segment of conscious consumers are successfully demanding a shift in the marketplace, with 88% of millennials believing businesses have the power to create positive social change.
Many designers have considerable difficulty preparing a competent set of standard building specifications, partly because it demands a shift of gears using a different medium to express design content using written documents instead of drawings.
The evaluation of end-use relevance demands a shift in organisational mindset and performance indicators away from readily quantifiable outputs towards a consideration of more qualitative end-user outcomes that are less amenable to measurement, requiring both a greater tolerance of ambiguity and a willingness to learn from the evaluation process.
Familiarity, training, and time for these technologies demand a shift from the previous work habits of many educators who would handwrite child assessment informally, individually create lesson plans with great academic freedom, and teach a curriculum that emerged from the class interests.
