The phrase "shifted aside" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to indicate that something has been pushed out of the way or moved out of position. For example: "As the traffic piled up, the cyclists shifted aside to create more room on the road."
Eurograndees dream that, if Britain would only shift aside rather than acting as a constant brake on integration, federal union might come sooner.At the risk of being difficult, Charlemagne offers this thought: the accusations of bad faith are justified, and admitting this would be healthy; but it is unhealthy nonsense to think that anybody would gain from a semi-detached Britain.
Those consumer shifts aside, Starbucks has previously acknowledged in its annual report that it faces growing competition from quick-service restaurants and other gourmet coffee shops.
Shifting demographics aside, the fig's sensitive nature may also be contributing to its decline.
But desert sunrises and shifting dunes aside, spring is also the time of one of the few secular festivals held in the kingdom, the Janadriya cultural festival.
Aside from a brief further investigation in the late 1770s, after Weber's death attention shifted decisively away to Pompeii and Herculaneum for more than two centuries.
Sequestration, the automatic spending cuts that stalled important research across the country, and years of flat-funding as homeland defense swept other priorities aside, have shifted the balance with federal funding for research on a downward trajectory.
Invisible digital content aside, shifting to digital formats dramatically reduces the costs of publishing.
The District government significantly underestimated the price of a state-of-the-art stadium for the Washington Nationals and as a result has been forced to shift $55 million set aside for infrastructure improvements to cover escalating costs.
Under his direction, the central bank shifted course on Tuesday, setting aside its talk of eventually tightening credit and taking a mostly symbolic step to help the flagging recovery.
