Sentence examples for stopped to shift from inspiring English sources

There he stopped to shift his burden, and caught a glimpse of the victim's face.

We ought to get rid of certain federal departments and agencies, stopping only to shift the role of governing back to the states, where it belongs.

Most important, Mr. McConnell said, the Republicans stopped Democrats' efforts to shift the course of the Iraq war.

His party does run the Punjab government, but that has not stopped him trying to shift the blame onto the federal government.

He directed the flow of the performance when behind his Yamaha organ and abruptly started and stopped the band to shift tempos.

Since the incidence of degenerative diseases increases with age, one may expect the "stop-effect" to shift with age (arrowheads, Figure 10B).

But you must stop the truck to shift to low range for slow, heavy-duty operation.

The officials said they had wanted to declare a state of emergency last week and delay the elections as part of a move to stop public gatherings and to shift the country's attention to the epidemic.

Lieder's assertions that the approach of Nibiru would cause the Earth's rotation to stop or its axis to shift violate the laws of physics.

One of the regulars comes over and gives her a kiss before settling across the bar with some friends; a waitress, midway through her shift, stops to say hello and rests her head briefly on the woman's shoulder before getting on with her work.

This resolution is a way for Angela Merkel and her government to say "stop" to Turkey's gradual shift towards autocracy.