Sentence examples for formal shift from inspiring English sources

The result is sometimes a formal shift in policy direction.

This would provide the "locomotive" for the formal shift to a federation.

"We're moving full speed ahead to effect the formal shift in direction of the department and the executive branch to be aimed at prevention of future terrorist acts".

Government records and detailed interviews with Officer Borja's family indicate that he did not rush to the disaster site, and that he did not work a formal shift there until late December 2001, after substantial parts of the site had been cleared and the fire in the remaining pile had been declared out.

While the two papers do not represent a formal shift in the fund's positions, they suggest that the I.M.F. is re-examining some of its long-established orthodoxies as part of its response to the global economic crisis that began in 2007.

Alternatively, of course, one could argue the other way and insist that the latter avoids having to choose between different metaphysical accounts of individuality, at least, and that the formal shift to quasi-set theory is not as dramatic as might be thought.

He warps and dents the assured, geometrical forms of vintage newspaper strips and new wave-era graphics into oddly adorable horrors; his stories are prone to whiplash formal shifts.

Dressed in angelic white by Norma Kamali, the 10 dancers do look like angels as they move across the stage in formal, shifting patterns, sinking, rising and scuffing the ground with their feet in choreography that matches the music's endearing awkwardnesses and simplicity, though with far more sophistication.

There were many formal shifts of theme -- some using Spanish scales -- and rhythm in Mr. Perez's longish "Suite of the Americas," and Mr. Perez and Mr. Blade went through them like gate-crashers, running ahead and laying behind the beat, building up energy through Latin montunos and quiet, rumbling sections.

These formal shifts represent a striking development for a painter who has always embodied a certain slacker chic.

When China's most powerful men gathered for the start of its formal power shift last November, six names merited a mention in the outgoing leader Hu Jintao's work report.