Sentence examples for make a fundamental shift from inspiring English sources

The authors urge companies to make a fundamental shift in mind-set toward designing for buyer behaviors, not customer segments.

Mr. Browne was replaced at BP by the current chief executive, Tony Hayward, who pledged to make a "fundamental shift in the way BP works".

Will enough people get sick of gridlocked, unhealthy, climate-damaging transportation systems to make a fundamental shift in how they use cars?

The political moment was such that the Pakistani Security Services could make a fundamental shift away from support to terrorist groups if they so chose, but they had not done so.

Mr. Makin, whose writings on the subject have drawn much attention at the Fed, contends that Mr. Greenspan needs to make a fundamental shift in strategy -- away from pegging monetary policy to interest rates and toward a renewed focus on money supply and price levels.

On the economic front, the official said Mr. Nakasone had indicated that he plans to move ahead with efforts to make a fundamental shift in Japanese economic priorities in which the country would rely less on exports and more on imports and domestic consumption for growth.

The World Bank has made a "fundamental shift" in its role of alleviating global poverty, by refocusing its financing efforts towards tackling climate change, the group said on Thursday.

"People are making a fundamental shift to having options" aside from a car in how they get around, said Michael Melaniphy, president and chief executive of the public transportation association.

McFaul's new book, Russia's Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin (Cornell University Press, 2001), is the fruit of a decade of firsthand observation of Russia as it made a fundamental shift toward democracy.

Frustrated that companies are beating unions in so many organizing drives, American labor leaders are making a fundamental shift in strategy away from a 60-year tradition of concentrating on workplace elections.

Prodded first by rising federal fuel economy standards, then shocked in 2008 by $145-a-barrel oil and a global credit crisis that forced General Motors and Chrysler to seek federal bailouts, Detroit is making a fundamental shift toward lighter, more fuel-conscious cars — and turning a profit doing so.