Polls in recent weeks indicate that public opinion is shifting, for the first time since 9/11, on the appropriate balance between individual liberty and national security.
But the political composition of the Belgian government had recently shifted; for the first time since the Second World War, secular politicians (liberals, socialists, and the Green Party) had more power than Christian Democrats, who resisted legalization.
It was only six years ago that the Newt Gingrich revolution in the House alarmed Democrats with the fact that a Catholic majority of voters had shifted for the first time in decades from Democrats to Republicans on the House ballot.
WASHINGTON — A surge in migrant traffic across the Southwest border into Texas has resulted in a milestone: the front line of the battle against illegal crossings from Mexico has shifted for the first time in over a decade away from Arizona to the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas.
In December 2013 the tribe shifted for the first time from leasing much of its coal-rich land to outside mining companies, to owning and operating one of its coal mines itself.
A more drastic change in the external stimuli in the absence of prior animal training (like in the de novo condition where animals were shifted for the first time from the sleep/rest box to the linear maze) may lead to a more complete CA3 NMDAR-dependent recruitment and stabilization of neuronal ensemble activity, a slower formation of new spatial representations, and a slower learning.
The United States, in a clear shift, stated for the first time that the Al Qaeda network played a role in inciting the bloody rebellion in the Russian territory of Chechnya, where the Russian Army has been accused of using indiscriminate force against civilians and committing numerous human rights abuses in putting down the revolt.
The extent of this shift permits, for the first time, a distinction to be made between bloodstains that were deposited minutes, hours, days and weeks prior to recovery and analysis.
Still, with Ms. Chavez's withdrawal, the political dynamics around Mr. Ashcroft's selection seemed to be shifting and, for the first time, some Senate aides said Mr. Ashcroft was potentially vulnerable if the intense research into his background produced a damaging revelation.
