Sentence examples for shift called from inspiring English sources

Such an overseas shift, called a tax inversion, has become increasingly popular among US companies and a hot political issue.

Tomer, who had the afternoon shift, called her military cell to say that there were three Palestinian male demonstrators at the checkpoint.

Ordered by the United States Supreme Court to reduce severe overcrowding in its prisons, California began redirecting low-level offenders to local jails last October in a shift called realignment.

But Pablo Baten, a neighbor and friend, who also works at Tortilleria Chinantla, on the day shift, called Juan Baten "a very good friend and a very good person".

By 1999, when a series of papers came out describing a major retreat and thinning of the Arctic pack ice due not only to gradually warmer temperatures, but also to a decadelong upper atmospheric shift called the Arctic Oscillation, George was in a position to put the pieces together.

Or will it precipitate the radical shift called for by the university's student representative council and black staff group, TransformUCT?

Portugal has recently become one the few European countries to fully acknowledge Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM); this substantial paradigm shift calls for novel tools for TCM practitioners, students and patients alike.

Truly popularising Radio 3 would require the sort of attitude-shift called for by Nicholas Cook in his book Music: A Very Short Introduction – undermining the "musical museum" mindset by foregrounding the contemporary and representing the music of past centuries as not trapped in dead history but continuing, fluid, vital.

Officers exhausted from double shifts called in sick to avoid overtime duty, the report said, and poor morale had driven officers out of the agency.

Each of his partners — Donny McCaslin on tenor saxophone, François Moutin on bass and especially Dan Weiss on drums — attacked his music hungrily, with an enthusiasm for dynamic shifts called on the fly.

The subsets of these states defining shifts will in general be identified in a later work, but here an interesting cross section for the conjugacy classes of shifts called diagonalizable shifts is introduced and studied.