Sentence examples for disturbing shift from inspiring English sources

The culture of litigation is simply the most evident sign of a disturbing shift in society from ethics to legality.

When it was revealed that the Klansmen had been paid, the series looked like a mockery of a disturbing shift.

Mr. Langdon said that in the last decade he had seen a disturbing shift in attitudes by corporate executives as to how aggressive to be in avoiding taxes.

Yet with religious prejudice in the form of Islamophobia being added to older forms of racism, we have observed a disturbing shift away from the political unity between African Caribbean and Asian people, which made Black Sections so successful.

Those increases reflect a disturbing shift toward violence by certain kinds of criminals, said Dr. Johan Burger, a 36-year veteran of the South African Police Service who is an analyst for the Institute for Security Studies, based in Pretoria.

In his statement, Mr. Ebitz did not dispute the existence of the supervisor's derogatory report or its mention of a disturbing shift in Mr. Snowden's behavior as he was preparing to leave the agency he had joined in 2006 for a new job as a contractor for the National Security Agency.

It's just that Loach is a master of sudden, disturbing shifts of mood, and the comedy is embedded in works that are often deeply sad or tragic.

This was true for its disturbing shifts of terrain, and the more pronounced departure from straight realism to nightmarish reverie, serving to blur the two.

It's like thumbing through an etiquette guide and discovering a sudden, disturbing tone shift: salad fork to the left of dinner fork, address a duchess by her title, and if someone rings the doorbell during high tea, bludgeon him in the face with a garden shovel.

The high sensitivity of this experimental technique led to the observation of hyperfine shifts in the ESR spectra caused by the chemically inert but physically disturbing helium environment: shifts of the well-known hyperfine structure constants of Rb and Rb were detected as a function of the droplet size.

It is a clear and disturbing sign of the shift of power from the individual to the moneyed interests in this country.