Sentence examples for shift sides from inspiring English sources

But not a single House Republican who had supported the president's previous veto was willing to shift sides yesterday.

"Some of the Taliban say, 'Well, it could get uncomfortable supporting those people, so I think I'll shift sides,' " Mr. Rumsfeld said today.

That concession apparently prompted two Democrats on the science committee to shift sides and join Smith in co-sponsoring H.R. 3293.

Elsewhere, competing warlords continue to shift sides and prolong the suffering of the average Libyan due to deteriorating security, power and water shortages and lack of liquidity at banks.

Their voice gets shaky, they shift side to side, and they fidget.

"I will kiss it better, mummy," he says, easily shifting sides.

"But he just wanted somebody to talk to," she said, shifting sides a little.

During the Afghan civil war, factions were continually shifting sides to gain an advantage.

For starters, the renegades, led by Jeffrey D. Klein of the Bronx, acquired power by shifting sides in a narrowly divided Senate.

But he has shifted sides, and grown increasingly outspoken in his advocacy for Senator Obama against Mrs. Clinton in this Democratic presidential primary.

They are angry, too, that parliamentarians loyal to the Druze chieftain, Walid Jumblatt, shifted sides, stripping Mr Hariri of his narrow majority.