The phrase "shifting left" is correct and usable in written English.
It is commonly used to refer to a process of decentralizing responsibility or authority. For example, you might say "The company is shifting left, encouraging their employees to take ownership of problems and find solutions."
As the postmortem gets under way on a devastating night for the Labour party, one conclusion is that the result has, as commentator Paul Waugh put it, "tested to destruction the idea that Labour can win by shifting left".
Maneuvering with the control bar — pulling in to speed up, pushing out to slow down, shifting left or right to bank into turns — should require about as much pressure as pushing a full grocery cart.
During last summer's leadership campaign, Corbyn's advocates said that shifting left – denouncing austerity, promising to raise taxes and scrap Trident – would bring back those who had defected to the SNP.
With the leadership election in full swing, and the perception that the party was shifting left, not right, in the wake of election defeat, no leadership candidate, apart from Liz Kendall, was prepared to follow Harman on her journey.
But with trade union solidarity behind it crumbling, and a new labour party mooted for the next election in 2019, some analysts believe the centre of gravity is shifting left, and the governing party will either bend or break.
Rather than "pathologizing" them, the new dimensional view of the drinking world could help many women evaluate their own drinking and make a decision if they like where they are, or if they ought to consider ways of "shifting left" on the drinking spectrum.
The next epiphany occurred by accident, when, during training, Pacquiao shifted left, around Roach and tapped his trainer on his left shoulder.
The country hasn't shifted left.
Moreover, she continues, "If the momentum is on Warren's side, then everything shifts left".
Sometime around 2004, though, older voters began moving right, while younger voters shifted left.
Supporting Mr Obama's free-trade agenda would conflict with her efforts to shift left.
