It was the start of a on-again, off-again five-year courtship that encapsulated their party's gradual adoption of a more conservative stance on fiscal issues, a shift punctuated a week ago by Mr. Romney's selection of Mr. Ryan as his running mate.
But just as the candidates have staked out hard positions on Israel, they have also moved to the right on other issues, a shift that Democrats say calls into question their appeal to a wide swath of Jewish voters.
Today, Mr. Obama espouses more centrist views and says a campaign aide had incorrectly characterized his views on those issues — a shift that does not sit well with some in the group, the Independent Voters of Illinois Independent Precinct Organization.
Despite fears that millions more women will have FGM for cultural reasons, there has been significant progress around the issue, with a shift in attitudes beginning to take hold, according to the report.
In an attempt to address this issue, a major shift in U.S. regulatory policy occurred in 1993.
I don't think so; if anything, attitudes about gay marriage and other social issues show a shift in a liberal direction.
The paper explores the changing nature of social issues, involving a shift in political attention from the needs of the individual to broader community and societal concerns.
The farmers' interest in immigration issues marks a shift.
The limited analyses that address the issue of a shifting socioeconomic effect over time suggest that shifts in the social class of smokers has less effect on trends in adenocarcinoma than for the other types of lung cancer [ 19].
