Sentence examples for moved to shift from inspiring English sources

BROKERS listening to such blunt talk may have been moved to shift uneasily in their seats.

Over the last five years, Mr. Dell said in an interview, he has moved to shift Dell from primarily making personal computers, an ever more difficult business, toward providing software and services for corporate clients.

Mr. Christie has moved to shift power from planning boards and government agencies to administrative judges, political appointees who, environmentalists say, tend to rule more often in favor of developers' interests.

The Pakistani Army is viewed as an occupier in the tribal areas, an officer said, and therefore has moved to shift to Frontier Corps and Frontier Constabulary forces drawn from the local population.

Later Peggy transferred her collection to Venice, where it was seen by Gabrielle Keiller, who was moved to shift the focus of her collection – which forms an important part of the Edinburgh show – to surrealism.

A lawyer representing the archdiocese and Father Mansfield has moved to shift the case from state to federal court on the grounds that it raises First Amendment questions about freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

For the right, moves to shift taxation from income to capital are about efficiency and promoting growth.

The Yemen move to shift blame elsewhere comes after reports that the US was planning to seek retribution in the country for the failed bomb attempt.

As June dawned Kleinfeld was moving to shift Siemens' biggest yoke, its wireless phone business, onto a joint venture with Taiwan's BenQ.

It also follows a common narrative as law enforcement when they kill people quickly move to shift blame from themselves to the victims of the killing.

Most modern bikes with gears have a metal mechanism near the front sprocket that moves to shift the chain from one front gear to another.