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"shifting the problem" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation wherein a problem is avoided or put aside, rather than being solved. For example: Rather than working to find a resolution to the company's financial difficulties, the board of directors chose to shift the problem to the next quarter.
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They must also avoid simply shifting the problem elsewhere in the region.
She said the S.P.C.A. was just shifting the problem to Newark.
This is often the problem with the war on drugs: shifting the problem from one region to another.
But until we find a sustainable solution to stockpiling the fuel, it will remain an illusion: we will merely be shifting the problem elsewhere.
As environmentalists point out, rich countries that spurn coal-fired power while exporting the rocks to countries with less ambitious emissions targets are merely shifting the problem around the globe.
Police were called several times, but did little more than urge people to resolve the disputes themselves.In this section Shifting the problem No parking ReprintsParking traumas are not confined to residential areas.
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"It shifts the problem elsewhere".
A country can shift the problem elsewhere, at least temporarily.
"It will shift the problem into people's homes," she says.
Even if the tideway tunnel is built, that will only shift the problem downstream.
"Putting consolidation off would just shift the problem into the future," Mr. Weidmann said.
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