Sentence examples for shift to direct from inspiring English sources

All urban and regional councils should be encouraged to shift to direct mayoral elections and fixed terms greater than one year.

The shift to direct transfer of sperm masses has led to evolution of both complex structures and complex behaviours for species recognition.

(Harvard was probably the first to shift to direct election of its Board of Overseers by alumni in 1865).

Owing to labour and water shortage, many South East Asian countries including Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Vietnam have shifted to direct seeded rice (DSR) from transplanted rice (Rao et al. 2007).

By the early Sixties he was working as a designer at the BBC, shifting to directing episodes of Z Cars and The Informer.

At one point the narrator suggests that cinema is inadequate to the historical task with the comment-question "The eye of the camera always opens too late?" The Dardennes shifted to directing fiction with their experimental 1987 feature "Falsch," an adaptation of an autobiographical play by the Belgian writer René Kalisky, whose father died at Auschwitz.

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The shift to directing is part of a larger attempt to reinvent, or at least reclaim, his career.

It was unclear whether the rebels, who have conducted only fitful negotiations with the government through intermediaries of their own choosing, had shifted to direct talks.

Congress would pay for the larger grants by ending subsidies to private banks that make student loans and shifting to direct federal lending.

The Spanish foreign ministry issued a press statement saying that the Europe ministers of the three countries at a meeting in Brussels today demanded prompt implementation of the summit decisions, meaning the call to break the link between weak banks and weak sovereigns and shifting to direct eurozone recapitalisation of Spanish banks.