The prime minister turns his attention to Timbuktu while shunting crucial economic decisions – from a new airport to our European referendum fate – into the blue yonder.
Similarly, spoilsport that I am, I can't help thinking that shunting the elderly from home to home in the knowledge that a small percentage of them will die of delayed shock is a criminal way to make savings.
Soft synonyms ease consciences and incline us to consider things less problematic, making us feel better and unfairly shunting matters to the bottom of the priority pile.
Since nothing can travel faster than light, adding the remaining 0.14% would require an infinite amount of energy, which means there is plenty of scope for doing better.Dr Byer did so by shunting the newly arrived electrons into a narrow channel between two glass plates, each half a millimetre long.
The thinness of last year's Queen's Speech was understandable: recessions have a way of shunting most other policy issues to the margins.
"Shunting complexity out to the edges will allow us to simplify operations dramatically," says Hossein Eslambolchi, AT&T's chief technology officer.The growth of interest in MPLS is good news for vendors such as Cisco, Juniper and Ciena.
There are plenty of things that should be done to help the young jobless, but shunting older workers out of the workplace is not one of them.
Shunting this view aside, Mr Becker instead assumed that many individuals had a "taste for discrimination", and perceived themselves to be worse off when forced to work alongside people of other races.
Or it can be the result of the steady accretion of power, winning over institutions and shunting aside rivals.
Iran, for its part, blames Pakistan for shunting undesirables across the common border.About six weeks ago, says the same western official, a decision was taken to send Iranian agents into Iraq, to influence events if things fell apart.
But first he decided to replace Mr Patiño, shunting him to a new ministry to deal with the coastal region, where the opposition to Mr Correa is strong.
