Sentence examples for officials shift from inspiring English sources

This is partly because elected local officials shift their efforts from expanding the economy to providing public goods, such as safe water.

* New York's massively bungled primary election fiasco in September is the most recent example of problems encountered when election officials shift to a new voting system.

Is it asking too much that our highest elected officials shift away from prioritizing the banking community and name as their first priority the people who elected them?

After the murder of Israeli athletes by Palestinian agents at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, American officials shifted their focus to terrorists.

The charges come from two quarters, from Republicans critical of the Obama administration's handling of Benghazi and intelligence officials shifting blame for Benghazi onto the State Department.

"Despite Vow, Target of Immigrant Raids Shifted" (front page, Feb. 4) reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials shifted their focus from dangerous fugitives to the easiest people to find.

The overture from officials shifted dramatically on Thursday, with many conceding the issue was far worse than initially portrayed by Snyder's administration.

Health officials shifted their attention away from Lisinopril, a hypertension medication that the authorities had earlier pulled from shelves as a precaution.

Mr. Chávez handpicked an administrator of Caracas this year and pro-Chávez officials shifted control of police and schools away from Mr. Ledezma.

Parents who drive to pick up their kids used to line up on the other side of the school, but they were blocking the main emergency access lane, and school officials shifted them to Hartwell Street.

After downplaying the domestic threat for months, federal health officials shifted tack on Wednesday and announced the new screening measures, which will oblige travellers from Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone to answer questions and submit to having their temperatures taken with an infrared thermometer.