Sentence examples for shift unexpectedly from inspiring English sources

Russia is more subtle, and the legal protections and state benevolence that protect investments can shift unexpectedly.

But if the overall impression is of a band so lost in sound they forgot to write songs, you have to admit the sound is pretty fascinating: the way the vocals shift unexpectedly in volume and clarity, the restless guitars that underpin Morning Mr Magpie and add a sense of agitation to a song that appears to be about the banking crisis, the bass overload and scattered vocal samples of Feral.

However, the Stokes shift unexpectedly decreased from 136 meV to 33 meV with increasing Cd content.

17 Warming weather also causes once-frozen soil to shift unexpectedly, while the ice covering the ocean may not always be thick enough to support the weight of vehicles.

Dream Theater shifted unexpectedly from thrash to power balladry, arena-size pomp and precise, almost free-jazz experimentation.

Now the landscape through which the figures move has a power all its own, shifting unexpectedly from daylight to darkness, from the urban to the pastoral, from tarmac to garden.

It's more likely that middle age itself comes with its own peculiar worries: parents age, friends die, children grow up and leave, careers stall, your once secure financial footing shifts unexpectedly beneath your feet.

In 2010 power shifted unexpectedly to Jonathan, who assumed the role of acting president in February after Yar'Adua fell ill; he was sworn in to the presidency following Yar'Adua's death in May.

And yet, there comes a point during his second album where you find your sympathies shifting unexpectedly from the singer-songwriter himself to the shadowy figure of TC, a gentleman who broke Grant's heart at some unspecified point in the past.

As soon as the formal legal issue shifts unexpectedly from a civil to a criminal matter — that is, to a Jew's attempt to take the life of a Venetian Christian — Shylock is no longer regarded in the eyes of the court as Antonio's equivalent.

This results in some instances of the policy process being aborted or shifted unexpectedly.