While an underresourced Patent and Trademark Office no doubt invites some abuse, shifting the determination of a patent's validity to the courtroom would undermine the very intellectual property rights the patent system is meant to protect.
The proposal makes sense only as part of the Administration's apparently iron determination to shift the tax burden downward.
The only thing "breathtaking" about this whole sorry affair is Krauthammer's determination to shift the focus of the debate from substance to personal invective.
The planned charge, which would cost £250 a month for the owners of homes worth £2m-£3m – has become symbolic of Ed Miliband's determination to shift the burden of taxation towards the wealthy.
Mr. Cuomo's proposal makes plain his determination to shift the way lawmakers, and the public, view such cuts, laying out how much actual spending will be reduced between last year's budget and the new one.
Pope Francis is delighting many, wowing the world's media and renewing interest in the Catholic church with his simplicity, his openness, and his apparent determination to shift the church's focus away from legalistic obsessions, especially with sex and morality.
The president is clearly driven by a determination to shift the focus of his counterterrorism policy from Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan to a more diffuse set of militant threats, some linked to Al Qaeda, that have sprung up from Syria to Nigeria.
Yet his determination to shift the balance of the system in favour of the victim risks creating new injustices.Take, for example the proposal that a new offence of "sexual grooming" should be created with a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment for anyone "who undertakes a course of conduct with a child under 16 leading to a meeting where the adult intends to engage in sexual activity".
Consequently, the goal of finding recurrent similar strings is shifted into the determination of highly clustered data points in a search space of high dimensionality.
They underestimated the ability and determination of the president and Congress to shift the agenda leftward.
Wheeler and colleagues [ 21] documented evolutionary stable shifts to the determination of position 1 of the mature sequence that can be displaced towards either the 5' or 3' end, a phenomenon called seed shifting, as well as the ability to post-transcriptionally edit the 5' end of the mature read, changing the identity of the seed sequence and possibly the repertoire of downstream targets.
