Sentence examples for firmly shifted from inspiring English sources

But by then his loyalties had firmly shifted, and the South decided not to prosecute.

And, in the MLS, the power has firmly shifted to the Western Conference.

Officials in the West Wing are convinced that the politics of the immigration issue have firmly shifted in their direction.

With the balance of power between England and their biggest rivals firmly shifted by the one-sided Ashes series of 2010-11, thEnglishsh can begin to feel how the Australians did for about 20 years.

Their latest advances all but guarantee Assad's eventual retaking of the city and have firmly shifted the once uncertain narrative from if to when.

His version (a history) is more moralistic and less touching, removing the psychological complexity of Benoît's (a romance) and the focus in his retelling of the love triangle is firmly shifted to the betrayal of Troilus by Briseida.

Murray writes of The Macquarie Dictionary (1981), in an essay titled "Centering the Language", that it shows "how much larger and richer our dialect is than many had thought, in part by gently but firmly shifting our linguistic perception, so that our entire language is henceforth centred for us, not thousands of miles away, but here where we live".

It seems clear that the balance shifted firmly with 1962.

She is banking on the hunch that the public and political mood has shifted firmly against the tax arrangements brokered by Luxembourg and other states.

For Bacon and his team, the message is that the ratio between salaries and benefits needs to be shifted firmly towards the latter.

But five days after Ethiopia mounted an offensive, the trenches are empty and the war has shifted firmly into Eritrean territory.