Sentence examples for issue has shifted from inspiring English sources
Nadelmann said that the national politics of the issue has shifted significantly recently, enabling support for Holder's "bold" proposals.
Mr. de Blasio's driver's license initiative may have a better chance of success than Mr. Spitzer's 2007 effort, supporters argue, because the climate surrounding the issue has shifted markedly since then.
Public opinion on this issue has shifted fast in the direction of approval and party affiliation has turned out to matter somewhat less than other factors: generation, whether somebody has gay friends or relatives, gut feelings.
The soda issue has shifted the usual political alliances among the Democrats vying to succeed Mr. Bloomberg, with one of his sharpest critics, Bill de Blasio, the public advocate, supporting the restrictions, and a candidate who is usually his ally, Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker, opposing them.
Focusing on this issue has shifted the debate about natural selection from pitting the word of scientists against the Bible's - a futile exercise - to a thesis that can be discussed rationally.
But an issue that once faced vehement opposition within the party -- gay marriage -- remained conspicuously absent from the lips of many speakers who took the stage, demonstrating how dramatically politics around the issue has shifted in just a few years.
But with the nation's fiscal problems looming larger, Republicans say the politics of the issue have shifted.
The national politics of the issue have shifted significantly recently, enabling cross party support for Holder's "bold" proposals, Nadelmann said.
By the time legislative elections started on June 9, the issue had shifted once more as voters swung right to avoid five more years of the right-left power-sharing blamed for paralyzing government and blocking reform.
But religious views on this issue have shifted and you see growing tolerance for gay people.
And by the 1980s, Chavez's stance on the issue had shifted considerably.
