Sentence examples for shift emphasis away from inspiring English sources

Sony's chief executive, Howard Stringer, has tried to shift emphasis away from hardware to networked products and services, but change has been slow.

It is possible that recent discord in Depp's personal life is behind the decision to shift emphasis away from his involvement.

members, wrote an open letter stating that Cizik had put forth "his own political opinions as scientific fact" and had used global warming to "shift emphasis away from the great moral issues of our time".

A report published by a collective of sustainable food and environment organisations last month called for definitions of food security to be adapted to shift emphasis away from increased production.

As industry experts and competitors digested the emerging details of the plan, many said the new company would not easily make inroads into the services market, cut costs or shift emphasis away from the suddenly ailing personal and business computer businesses that forms its foundation.

And then there is the managerial creed, which shifts emphasis away from the "invisible hand" and towards professional managers "who consciously direct economic forces for the common good".

He also shifted emphasis away from the Internet, which the company had thought could complement the dealerships as a direct-sales tool.

In The Principles of Psychology (1890), American philosopher and psychologist William James shifted emphasis away from an association of ideas to an association of central nervous processes caused by overlapping or immediately successive stimuli.

Marginal income tax rates could rise, but policy makers could go a different route and adopt a consumption tax, like the value-added tax common in many European countries, shifting emphasis away from income taxes.

He offers a cool critique of the "market model of medicine" while vividly illustrating how the seemingly inexorable trend toward specialization in the last few decades has shifted emphasis away from what was once the foundation of medical practice.

Faculty are shifting emphasis away from the traditional lecture to techniques that use hands-on learning and incorporate student response technologies while dedicating classroom time to problem-solving and engagement.