No. 1 AD's focus thereafter shifted to ground equipment that supported navigational aids, air traffic control, telecommunications and motor transport for the Air Force and other sections of defence and government.
Now the battle shifts to ground that is much more favorable to Democrats -- the Presidential swing states, a set of Senate states where they have to defend incumbents on more Democratic turf, and House seats where Presidential year turnout puts the Democrats in a position to take a majority.
After a presidential election in which Latino voters rewarded President Obama while punishing Republicans for their positions on immigration, Republican leaders and prominent conservatives moved quickly this week to shift to new ground, saying they could support some kind of legislation to fix illegal immigration.
One would hope that candidates and their campaigns have received enough negative feedback about the incivility and character assassination that has been front and center throughout the primary season, that a shift to higher ground would make strategic sense.
Both Gardner and Tillis were chameleons, disavowing their previous right-wing positions in a shift to the middle ground.
He blames Mr Cameron's attempt to shift to the centre ground and says it has created the electoral space that UKIP will seek to occupy on polling day.
If conflict with the left could be shifted to the ground of culture, there was a chance of binding the right and even claiming some socially conservative voters who had traditionally voted for the Democrats.
In particular, with the rise of empiricism and subjectivism in this domain, attention shifts to the ground and nature of the subject's experience of beauty, the subject's aesthetic response, and this focus is characteristic of Enlightenment aesthetics.
Nelson [461] realized that one could view (H_0) as an infinite sum of independent harmonic oscillators (shifted to have ground state energy 0) which he analyzed as follows: For a single variable oscillator on (L^2({mathbb {R}},dx)), there is a unit vector (Omega _0) with (H_0Omega _0=0).
Republican leaders have indicated that they are eager to move on to a broader counterterrorism debate, shifting to policy ground that often favors the GOP.
