Sentence examples for shifted not from inspiring English sources

Has the intention shifted: not to rescue Greece, but to rescue Europe from it?

"It totally shifted not only how I live, but what was important to me," he says.

Yet, in retrospect, it seems that the reports shifted not just the intensity but also the tone of the review.

But it's only recently that the focus has shifted not to how much you sweat but what you sweat.

The expansion of our digital universe — Second Life, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter — has shifted not only how we spend our time but also how we construct identity.

In Lincoln's case the rationale for the war shifted, not because he couldn't find any W.M.D. in Dixie, but rather, argues Mr. Sandel, "because of the enormity of the sacrifice that the war was requiring.

When Mrs. Gardner -- no Bostonian would dream of calling her Isabella -- died in 1924, she bequeathed the museum that had been her home to the city on the condition that it remain intact and unchanged, with no object taken from or added to the collection, and nothing shifted -- not a chair, not a vase -- within the rooms themselves.

"China now needs a paradigm shift, not marginal improvement.

It would be a shift, not an increase, in consumption.

The crash was blamed on a cargo shift, not excess weight.

Secondly, we have seen a geopolitical shift, not in economic power, but in leadership.