Sentence examples for shifted abroad from inspiring English sources
The persecutions of Protestants caused the focus of English biblical scholarship to be shifted abroad where it flourished in greater freedom.
The prevailing wisdom on skilled work being shifted abroad -- outsourced -- is that it is anecdotally alarming but not really a big deal economically.
"The panel of doctors recommended that Malala be shifted abroad to a U.K. center which has the capability to provide integrated care to children who have sustained severe injury," said the spokesman's statement.
Carney's comments fuel a controversy already raging in the UK, and last month George Osborne announced plans to impose a 25% levy on profits generated in Britain but shifted abroad.
George Osborne has launched a crackdown on tax avoidance by multinational technology firms such as Google and Amazon, by imposing a 25% levy on profits which are generated in Britain but "artificially shifted" abroad.
Some American corporations are also lobbying for a new "territorial" tax system, which would, in effect, be a permanent holiday: profits made or shifted abroad would be forever untaxed in America, even if the country where the profits were held was a haven with no or low taxes.
A study suggests that between now and 2015 about 3.3 million white-collar jobs will shift abroad.
Forrester Research projects that by 2005, as many as 588,000 service jobs now held by Americans will shift abroad.
But if investors are shifting abroad just because the dollar is weakening, it is not a good bet.
In February, N. Gregory Mankiw, the chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, described outsourcing-the shifting abroad of previously secure jobs-as "just a new way of doing international trade".
Japanese firms focus more on profits than in the past, thanks to improvements in corporate governance, notes Robert Feldman of Morgan Stanley, an investment bank; that is prompting them to look for better prospects abroad.With more production shifting abroad, Japan's exports are also suffering.
