Sentence examples for shift of the middle from inspiring English sources

Thanks to the Great Vowel Shift of the middle of the last millennium, English uses vowels differently from almost all other European languages.

The activism Web site Change.org is awash in petitions for doing so in the U.S., either by extending daylight-saving time as the Australians recommend, ending it outright, or moving the time shift to the middle of the following Monday.

Expanding access to birth control, family planning and sex education is not clear evidence of a Democratic Party shift to the middle on social issues; those have all been contentious questions during the Bush presidency.

Now, the position of the scan was shifted to the middle of the screen.

When the "edge-localization energy" exceeds the peak-voltage of the charged layer eVo the wave function center shifts to the middle of the QW and behavior becomes similar to that of a square (unbiased) QW.

The hub of Indian life in New York had long been in Jackson Heights, Queens, but that hub is now shifting to the middle of the Island, said Dr. Sridhar of the Center for India Studies.

Explore's tab will actually shift out of the middle position that Moments once held in the bottom navigation bar.

Then the wave function center shifts to the middle of the QW, and behavior becomes similar to that of an unbiased square QW.

"Prey" gets cinematically scary when the scene shifts to the middle of a torrid Nevada desert.

The deadline for voting was shifted to the middle of every month, and online voting was introduced.

I really, really wanted to get it right, and it was important to me that the movie felt cohesive and that the themes drawn through from the beginning to the end felt all of a piece, even though there is this tunnel, kind of shift in the middle of it.