TO be sure, most major airlines still give passengers the opportunity to check two bags for a combined limit of 100 pounds (With my family of four, that translated into as many as eight bags for a combined weight limit of 400 pounds, hence, my ability to shift my briefs from bag to bag).
When she crosses the floor in huge stomps, the brief shift to less literal expression has even greater impact.
Before we start our shift, I always brief crews on what to expect and advise them to approach a bonfire with extreme caution.
"I'm not quite sure what it's used for," said Ms. Foster, on the precipice of paradigm shift, after a brief barefoot hula in the Temple.
Sharapova missed more than nine months of tournament play, discounting a brief shift as a doubles specialist in Indian Wells, Calif., in March.
But despite losing Ben Stokes for 10 before Billings' dismissal, New Zealand – who had taken four wickets for 31 runs – could not capitalise on a brief shift in momentum once Buttler arrived at the crease.
A brief shift to Isolde's point of view is refreshing yet tardy, leaving us to wish that Swann, whose previous novels include "Flower Children," had paid more attention to Isolde's tale and less to Daisy and Leonarda's comparative frivolity.
The brief shift also gives "Mom" a bountiful lead-in from "The Big Bang Theory," potentially helping to introduce new viewers to the series.
The LaHood reports proved erroneous, but the media that evening began a brief shift in attention away from the health care debate to the delicious story of cash for clunkers, a government program that was so successful it had burned through $1 billion in stimulus funds within days.
For more on the causes and implications of this shift, see our full briefing on Britain's seismic political fragmentation.
Pentagon officials said that Mr. Rumsfeld's views began to shift after a December 2002 briefing by Marin Strmecki, an Afghanistan expert at the Smith Richardson Foundation, who argued that Afghanistan was not ungovernable and that it could be turned into a moderate, Muslim force in the region.
