Sentence examples for shifting of emphasis from inspiring English sources

Gen. Carter Ham, commander of American forces in northern Iraq, said in an e-mail message on Friday: "The shifting of emphasis to developing Iraqi security forces as the first priority seems right.

"Attention drawn to the population explosion, a shifting of emphasis from reproduction to contraception, and demands for the full development of artificial reproduction would provide an alternative to the oppressions of the biological family," wrote the feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in her manifesto "The Dialectic of Sex," in 1970.

Subtle tweaks to the rhetoric, a shifting of emphasis, a misting of meaning, a blurring of ideologies.

Opera, for example, employs both drama and music in shifting patterns of emphasis.

Flip-flop category: shift of emphasis.

The discovery had brought "a shift of emphasis", said Redwood.

But this shift of emphasis is not subtle.

We get every possible permutation of theory, interminable shifts of emphasis and twiddling with minutiae.

In a calamitous shift of emphasis, Ritchie turns Kuryakin into a semi-psychotic.

The shift of emphasis toward more discussion of foreign policy issues was obviously dictated by events.

Yet the shift of emphasis at the dam agencies is proving far from simple.