Sentence examples for is intended to shift from inspiring English sources

"This is intended to shift compensation away from excessively generous health insurance toward wages," he said.

The suit is intended to shift the cost of caring for her from the council to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority on the grounds that the girl is victim of "violence against the person".

He says his gesture is intended to shift the battleground in ongoing democracy demonstrations.

It may be that there, too, discharge accompanying gaze shifts (saccades in this case) can drive both eye or head movements downstream but that such commands are only generated when the behavior is intended to shift gaze.

The additions of the business association and individual plaintiffs, according to lawyers involved, were intended to shift any public perception that the lawsuit was primarily a political device.

"It's misdirection, and it's intended to shift the customer's focus from a company's appalling behaviors to something that's peripheral," Ballard says.

The government claims the cuts are intended to shift more resources towards monitoring development of the Alberta tar sands, the core of Harper's economic strategy.

The elections could be based on the constitutional amendments ratified by the Palestinian Legislative Council in March 2003, which are intended to shift power from the office of the president to those of the cabinet and prime minister.

Many of those leaks appeared to be intended to shift the focus from News International's current leadership to Scotland Yard and Andy Coulson, the former News of the World editor who was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy in phone hacking and of bribing police officers.

An important feature of school-reform legislation was the creation of local school councils — boards of parents, teachers and community members — which were intended to shift some major decisions about educational policy from central administrators to each school's key constituents.

The report, by Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa and Representative Darrell Issa of California, said the 2009 operation in Arizona by the Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, called Fast and Furious, was intended to shift the focus of enforcement efforts toward criminal organizations south of the border and away from straw purchasers who knowingly buy guns for others.