Tony Thorne, a linguist and slang specialist at King's College London, said this type of reversal can be a very effective means of shifting meanings and perceptions associated with certain language.
Trade unions viewed them as a means of shifting the risk of unemployment from the worker to the firm.
With a broad experience in the design and delivery of leadership education Jackie is committed to critical enquiry as a means of shifting mindset and transforming practice.
But nearly every country, including the United States, has agricultural subsidies as a means of shifting income from urban workers to often more hard-pressed farmers.
Gillespie hoped to help his party get control of statehouses where congressional redistricting was pending, thereby leveraging victories in cheap local races into a means of shifting the balance of power in Washington.
His tactic was couched in the language of "ending the blame game" but was actually calculated to give him a means of shifting, or at least sharing, the blame.
Even as customers continued to flock online for purchases, investors, doubtful that e-tailers could ever turn a profit, fled so quickly that Internet merchants had little means of shifting course as prospects for profitability were dimming.
The show features whole walls covered with scores of carefully dated images of specific landscapes, tracking the passage of the seasons by means of shifting colours and a careful use of light.
The rider employs long stirrups and a severe bit that he seldom uses because he rides with a loose rein, guiding his horse chiefly by means of shifting the weight of his body in the saddle.
While James often looks to attack New York in pick and rolls from the top of the key or as a solo battering ram, Wade often slinks to the court's baseline boundary – a haven for those with his gifts of awareness and timing: [ With the ball or without, Wade walks the court's edge as a means of shifting the game's orientation.
