Even so Tuesday's announcement marks a profound shift in foreign policy orientation.
British diplomats in India say the move is one of several in recent months that have marked a profound shift in the relationship between the two countries.
They were social media.The rise and fall of mass communicationsThe invention of the steam press in the early 19th century, and the emergence of mass-market newspapers such as the New York Sun, therefore marked a profound shift.
This loosening of the gatekeeping role traditionally held by media companies of all colors and stripes marks a profound shift in the relationship and expectations held by consumers about media consumption.
Marking a profound shift in the way the Government views cyberspace, the Federal Communications Commission said yesterday that at least some companies that provide telephone service over the Internet should be regulated in some of the same ways that traditional phone companies like AT&T are regulated.
The civil rights struggle and the social upheaval of the 1960s marked a profound shift in how black America was portrayed on screen.
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Whereas the advent of Web 2.0 marked a profound shift in the meaning of the Web, this next phase is less a new direction than an exploration of what becomes possible when the building blocks of Web 2.0 (such as participation, collective intelligence and so on) increase by orders of magnitude.
All of this marks a profound shift in our social operating system, or our socialOS, in how we value and trust the people and "things" we would in previous eras have fought to control or own.
Shifts away from carnivory and evolution of herbivory and plant-detrital diets are prominent in many of the more speciose and ecologically diverse marine and freshwater fish lineages, often marking a profound shift in the phylogenetic trajectories, species diversity and ecological impact of certain clades [ 87, 95].
